Facebook page gets MCD good response from Delhi

Here is your chance to do your part in keeping your locality clean. All you have to do is click a picture and post it on social networking site Facebook, and the rest would be taken care by the MCD. HT reports.

Here is your chance to do your part in keeping your locality clean. All you have to do is click a picture and post it on social networking site Facebook, and the rest would be taken care by the MCD.

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Keeping up with times, the new generation of tech-savvy MCD babus on Wednesday launched a Facebook account which will focus on monitoring cleanliness in the city.

The Facebook page of the MCD, which looks after 96 % of the area of Delhi got immediate response from citizens who started uploading complaints and photos.

The page has already been "liked" by more than 400 netizens. The civic agency claimed that it has become the 'first civic body' to use the interactive medium of Facebook for prompt and effective monitoring of lifting of garbage.

"If garbage isn't collected, or the garbage site is not cleaned, the residents can register a complaint on the Facebook page, along with photographs if possible and such details as the garbage collection site number as provided in the page," said K S Mehra, municipal commissioner.

They said MCD will take action on the complaint and revert to the citizen concerned on the Facebook itself.

Initiating the MCD account by signing as a member on the Facebook page, Delhi Mayor Prithvi Raj Sawhney appealed to the citizens to join hands with the civic body to monitor prompt lifting of garbage. "I hope that with the cooperation of citizens and prompt action by MCD, the city will become cleaner," said Sawhney.