Night sweeping of all NDMC markets by May
It also plans to acquire a separate set of small machines and equipment for cleaning narrow lanes and common areas in 22 markets, which can't be covered by MRS. The equipment includes 10 litter pickers, seven floor cleaning machines, 10 pressure jetting machines and 10 water sprinklers.
"To address worsening air quality and dust pollution, especially during the winter, the council approved the procurement of five new CNG-operated MRS.
The existing fleet of seven MRS, deployed in 2017-18, is aged and frequently out of service, severely affecting NDMC's ability to meet its daily cleaning target of 365km road and markets," said vice-chairman Kuljeet Chahal.
The council granted administrative approval of Rs 6.7 crore for the project through the Central Pollution Control Board funding. Chahal said NDMC's Swachhta division monitors air quality and reports data to agencies, including CPCB, Delhi Pollution Control Committee and Commission for Air Quality Management.
by Taboola
by Taboola
Sponsored Links
Sponsored Links
Promoted Links
Promoted Links
You May Like
Perdagangkan CFD Emas dengan Broker Tepercaya
IC Markets
Mendaftar
Undo
"Under National Green Tribunal's guidelines prohibiting new diesel vehicle registrations in Delhi, CPCB agreed to fund the procurement of these new CNG-operated sweepers," he added.
You Can Also Check:
Delhi AQI
|
Weather in Delhi
|
Bank Holidays in Delhi
|
Public Holidays in Delhi
Currently, night cleaning is performed in three markets, Connaught Place, Prithviraj Market and Khan Market, using 44 sanitation staff and dedicated equipment, while evening cleaning is performed in 12 markets, including Gole Market, Khanna Market, Begum Zaidi Market and Bengali Market.
"Eventually, we have plans to cover all markets. We plan to deploy 115 sanitation staff, 10 supervisors, in addition to MRS, floor cleaning machines, pressure jetting machines, garbage collection vehicles and litter picker machines," according to NDMC's detailed report. The sanitation division is also working on a detailed plan to improve air quality and dust control in its area.
A proposal will also be worked out for reviving non-performing assets such as restaurants at Lodhi Garden and Coffee House at Chanakyapuri in a time-bound manner after settling legal disputes.
"The idea is to reopen them to the public. We are also working on plans for developing public-friendly places, including eateries," said Chahal. Other properties, such as Super Bazaar and Akbar Bhawan, will also be revamped, and NDMC is working on these plans.
In the council meeting, members unanimously passed a condemnation resolution to mark the 50th anniversary of the imposition of emergency in India on June 25, 1975.
The issue of non-vacation of flats even after the transfer of officers and non-transfer of flats provided under the inter-pool policy was also discussed. It was stated that the NDMC was facing problems in providing accommodation to its officers in Lutyens' Delhi.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
India.com
35 minutes ago
- India.com
The Milk India Refuses To Drink: Why ‘Non-Veg Dairy' Is A Red Line In Trade Deal With US
New Delhi/Washington: In the backrooms of New Delhi's diplomatic zone, trade officials kept circling one issue that simply would not move. It was not fighter jets, data servers or farm subsidies. It was milk. Yes, milk. One of the biggest stumbling blocks in the India-U.S. trade pact is white, creamy and sacred to millions. And the problem lies not in how it is consumed, but how it is produced. Washington wants access to India's $16.8 billion dairy market, the largest in the world. It wants to sell its butter, cheese and milk powder to a country that churns out over 239 million metric tonnes of milk a year. But New Delhi is not opening that door. At the centre of India's resistance lies one demand – an assurance that the milk entering Indian homes comes from cows that were never fed meat, blood or animal remains. No exceptions. No compromises. Indian officials are calling it a red line. The idea of 'non-veg milk' does not sit well with millions of Indian households, especially vegetarians who see dairy as nutrition as well as ritual. Ghee is poured into sacred flames during prayer. Milk is bathed over deities. The concept of cows being fed pig fat or chicken remains crosses dietary boundaries and lines of faith. Trade experts struggled to explain this to Washington. 'Imagine eating butter made from the milk of a cow that was fed meat and blood from another cow. India may never allow that,' said Ajay Srivastava from the Global Trade Research Initiative in New Delhi. Despite U.S. claims that the concern is exaggerated, several American reports confirm the reality. A Seattle Times investigation documented how American cattle feed can legally include ground-up remains of pigs, horses and poultry. Even chicken droppings, known as poultry litter, sometimes make their way into the mix. The logic is economic – feed animals cheap and grow them fast. For Indian regulators, it is simply unacceptable. India's Department of Animal Husbandry mandates certification on all imported food items, including milk, to ensure no animal-derived feed is involved. This has long been criticised by the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a 'non-scientific barrier'. But for India, it is not about science but belief. In 2006, the Indian government formalised this belief in trade rules. It resulted into high tariffs – 30% on cheese, 40% on butter and a whopping 60% on milk powder. For countries like New Zealand or Australia, breaking into India's dairy space is nearly impossible. For the United States, it is a billion-dollar hurdle. India's dairy sector feeds over 1.4 billion people. It employs more than 80 million, many of them smallholder farmers. Cheap American imports, experts say, could collapse local markets. A report from the State Bank of India estimates an annual loss of Rs 1.03 lakh crore if U.S. dairy is allowed to flood in. That is nearly 2.5-3% of the country's entire Gross Value Added. And the risk is not theoretical. 'If American butter comes in cheap, our milk prices drop. What happens to the village woman who sells five litres of milk a day?' asks Mahesh Sakunde, a dairy farmer from Maharashtra. Meanwhile, Washington sees India's refusal to open up as 'protectionist'. But India's negotiators stood firm. 'There is no question of conceding on dairy. That is a red line,' said a senior Indian official. The United States exported over $8.2 billion worth of dairy last year. Gaining access to India's vast market could supercharge those numbers. But Indian officials are unwilling to allow milk from cows that ate meat to be offered at temple altars or poured into toddler cups. And so, while the two countries hammer out trade terms with hopes of reaching $500 billion in bilateral commerce by 2030, the dairy debate remains unresolved. It may seem like a small detail in a massive negotiation, but in India, this is sacred, culture and a line that will not be crossed.
Time of India
35 minutes ago
- Time of India
Fund managers stay selective despite June market surge
With the broad Nifty 50 gaining 3.1% and the Nifty Smallcap 250 moving up 5.73% in June, fund managers remained cautious, deploying money selectively. They bought into a mix of lenders such as L&T Finance, Aptus Value Housing Finance, AU Small Finance Bank , and RBL Bank , Union Bank of India and M&M Financial. Apart from financials, fund managers made selective purchases in domestic pharma companies with strong brands and growth strategies, picking up stocks like Laurus Labs and Divi's Laboratories. Best MF to invest Looking for the best mutual funds to invest? Here are our recommendations. View Details » by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like This Mixture "Burns" Away the Belly Fat After the First Use! Healthy Life Learn More Undo Agencies In addition, AMCs were active in stocks like Asian Paints , Britannia , Biocon , Infosys , Gland Pharma , Dixon Technologies , Premier Energies , and Kaynes Technology — reflecting selective optimism across sectors beyond financials and pharma.
Time of India
39 minutes ago
- Time of India
Sarvam AI will open source its IndiaAI Mission AI models
Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup will be open sourcing the models it is training as part of the IndiaAI Mission , Sarvam cofounder Vivek Raghavan, told will be done under permissible licenses, he said. The company has received the highest subsidy allocated under the IndiaAI Mission so far at Rs 98.68 crore, out of a bill of Rs 246.71 crore for access to 4,096 Nvidia H100 GPUs for six months, as per the IndiaAI part of the first phase of approvals, was selected by the IndiaAI mission to initiate the development of an indigenous foundational AI an open source software meeting at IIIT-D on Saturday, Abhishek Singh, chief executive, IndiaAI Mission, in a virtual address, had said that the Government of India-sponsored large language models (LLMs) (including Sarvam's) have been decided to be made open Tuesday, Singh confirmed the same to issue was first raised by Paras Chopra, founder and former chairman of software company Wingify . In a post on microblogging platform X on April 27, he had said, "So you're telling me that Deepseek with private funds can release an open source model, but govt awarding Rs 220 crores of public funds to Sarvam isn't asking for the same? This is tax payers money, so the full pipeline ought to be open source!"To which another cofounder Pratyush Kumar had responded, "This is not a grant. A gov body will take equity in Sarvam for the compute we receive. And we are committed to building public interest use-cases and enabling the ecosystem in various ways such as hyper-optimising the inferencing costs in India."India gave the cabinet approval for the Rs 10,000-crore IndiaAI Mission in March last year, with a target of procuring over 10,000 part of the IndiaAI mission, the government is incentivising the development of LLMs built by startups like Sarvam, Gnani, Gan, and Soket AI Labs with investment capital and other support. The move is aimed at building up India's AI Gupta, chief executive of Yotta Data Services, on June 28 revealed that out of 506 proposals received by the IndiaAI Mission for building foundation AI models, a striking 43 are specifically dedicated to building LLMs, underscoring the nation's strategic emphasis on sovereign and culturally relevant was speaking at a panel discussion at the AI for India Summit 2025, organised by AI4India in Bengaluru.
