Sri Krishna Citizen Matters

Delhi’s waste mountain is pushing up child mortality, but does anyone really care?

December 9, 2020 Sri Krishna

On the night of November 24th, a fire broke out at the Ghazipur landfill site in the capital, choking an already severely polluted city.

Reviving Delhi’s economy: Committee to focus on ease of doing business

November 2, 2020 Sri Krishna

Delhi has set up a 12-member Committee on Economic Revival of the City, under technocrat Jasmine Shah, and comprised of representatives from the government, municipal corporations and industry.

Delhi’s pollution response plan key to flattening its winter COVID curve

October 13, 2020 Sri Krishna

Uncontrolled pollution leads to severe respiratory problems, which could worsen the COVID-19 situation. Can the government’s response plan, with its 10-member high-tech war room, prevent that?

Neither food nor food allowance for hungry school kids in Delhi since March

August 11, 2020 Sri Krishna

The Directorate of Education said the delay in cash transfers was due to the preoccupation with COVID. Meanwhile poor families struggle to provide the bare minimum nutrition for their children.

Delhi fights monsoon flooding with 44-year-old drainage plan

July 30, 2020 Sri Krishna

With a 1976 drainage master plan and multiple agencies managing them at loggerheads, Delhi shows how not to manage the yearly monsoon mayhem.

Delhi Report Card 5: How healthcare in Delhi has changed during the AAP tenure

February 5, 2020 Sri Krishna

158 Mohalla clinics, 23 polyclinics, rising OPD coverage in government hospitals, referrals to private hospitals for free MRI and other expensive tests — the numbers and initiatives are undeniably impressive. A closer look at the details on the ground and what Delhiites are saying about the same.

Delhi Report Card 2: Keen focus on education, but jury still out on outcomes

February 1, 2020 Sri Krishna

It is widely acknowledged that the AAP government placed education reforms at the top of their agenda during their tenure, initiating many experiments, particularly in school education. While some of these have clearly yielded positive results, some have drawn sharp criticism.

Gurgaon Rapid Metro: A public project for private gain

December 3, 2019 Sri Krishna

Senior IAS officer Ashok Khemka’s scathing letter to the state government called attention to the irregularities in the Gurugram Rapid Metro project and how a select few real estate companies have profited from it. A look at the details

Is Delhi ready for a green Diwali, with only anars and phuljaris?

October 26, 2019 Sri Krishna

The Supreme Court has mandated that only ‘green’ crackers as formulated by CSIR-NEERI and approved by PESO may be burst this Diwali, so that there is less air and noise pollution. But is Delhi, a city used to boisterous celebrations for a week before and after the festival, ready for a quieter, smoke-free Diwali?

City of freebies: Promises that the Delhi government must deliver on

September 19, 2019 Sri Krishna

Water, electricity, wifi, bus rides for women — promises of free or heavily subsidised services for the citizens of Delhi flow freely and frequently from the AAP government. We take a look at the details of some recent announcements and where they stand.

Hope anew for Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill as PMO steps in

August 8, 2019 Sri Krishna

Following national and international outcry over East Delhi’s towering Ghazipur dump, the Prime Minister’s Office has issued a Global Request for Proposal (RFP) inviting solutions from experts to the problems posed by the landfill.

How one of Delhi’s tallest structures is contributing to climate change

July 17, 2019 Sri Krishna

Intense summers are not uncommon in Delhi, but when temperatures soared to 48 degrees this June, it was a record even by city standards. Could emissions from the East Delhi Ghazipur landfill have had a role to play?

Will Delhi’s Rs 571-crore CCTV project finally take off successfully?

April 26, 2019 Sri Krishna

Lack of maintenance and monitoring, power supply and cost sharing issues have seen many cameras go kaput in the past. Now, with a freshly drawn-up Standard Operating Procedure, the Kejriwal government is all set to revive the project with 2000 installations across the city.

Why does our water ministry want a boat ride on Delhi’s largest sewer drain?

March 29, 2019 Sri Krishna

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has proposed a Rs 12000-cr project for a water route from Delhi to Agra to Prayagraj, along the river Yamuna. But what will it do for the river, which has been reduced to a dumping ground for untreated sewage and industrial waste?