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MCD fails yet again to update its website

Sandeep Joshi

Causes inconvenience, confusion as sealing drive goes on

NEW DELHI: The courts may have been regularly pulling up the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for its failure to make proper use of its website for providing information to the public about the ongoing demolition and sealing drives in the city, but the civic body is still continuing with its old flawed list without updating it.

More than a month ago when the Supreme Court asked the MCD to make public the names of 80-foot-wide roads where shops were operating illegally from residential areas, the civic body had initially published the names of over 180 roads including those that did not come under the Court's direction.

`No new list'

Though the civic body issued a public notice about the revised list of roads, it is yet to upload the fresh list on its website even as the sealing exercise continues across the city. This act of the civic body is causing inconvenience and confusion among the people.

That is not all. There are several other flaws in the civic body's website. For instance, according to it there are two Mayors in Delhi.

While the message of former Mayor Satbir Sigh to the residents continues on the website, the name of present Mayor Farhad Suri has been mentioned in the list of phone numbers.

Interestingly, the Municipal Commissioner's message comes without his name and photograph as is the general practice in other official websites.

Similarly, during the past few months at least a dozen Deputy Commissioners have been transferred but their names still find mention in the website.

The same is the case with other departments. "Though the MCD claims it to be an interactive website, it is seldom updated making it of little use to the people of Delhi," said a senior MCD official.

When contacted, Mayor Farhad Suri blamed the apathetic attitude of the civic body officials. "I will urgently take up the matter with the officials concerned." Accepting that there could be errors in the website's contents, a senior I-T Department official said he would look into the matter and get the website updated.

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