The Municipal Corporation of Delhi will conduct a three-hour Delhi cleanliness drive across all 250 wards every Tuesday from November 24, targeting garbage-prone spots and areas that continue to face sanitation problems despite regular cleaning.
The special drive will run from 9 am to 12 noon and cover at least a two-kilometre stretch in each ward, according to a statement issued by the civic body. Delhi Mayor Pravesh Wahi announced the initiative in the statement issued on Saturday.
The operation will bring together elected representatives and municipal personnel, including Members of Parliament, Members of the Legislative Assembly, councillors, senior municipal officials and sanitation workers. The stated focus is on locations where waste accumulation remains a recurring sanitation concern.
By covering every ward on the same day and within a fixed three-hour window, the programme creates a citywide schedule for additional cleaning activity beyond regular sanitation operations. The municipal corporation has not provided details in the supplied announcement on the number of workers or vehicles assigned to each ward, the budget for the drive, the method for identifying the two-kilometre stretches or the system that will be used to measure results.
The initiative also places elected representatives and senior officials alongside sanitation workers during the scheduled operations. The announcement does not specify whether the participating MPs, MLAs and councillors will have defined monitoring responsibilities or how complaints from residents will be recorded and followed up after each Tuesday drive.
The focus on areas that remain problematic despite regular cleaning points to a gap between routine sanitation coverage and conditions at persistent garbage-prone locations. However, the statement does not identify the wards or sites initially selected, nor does it provide information on the types or volumes of waste expected to be removed.
The programme is scheduled to begin on November 24. Further operational details, including ward-level locations, deployment arrangements and the process for reviewing the drives, were not included in the announcement supplied for this report.
