The letter to protested against Dikshit for "taking all credit for cleaning up the Commonwealth Games Village" and contended that it had "demoralised personnel of other agencies who also worked there."
In an unusual move, Delhi lieutenant governor (LG) Tejender Khanna has shot off a letter to the prime minister protesting against chief minister Sheila Dikshit for, what he called, taking all credit for cleaning up the Commonwealth Games Village and contended that it had demoralised personnel of other agencies who also worked there.
In the letter dated October 7, copies of which have been sent to the home ministry as well the urban development ministry, Khanna has said the statements by Dikshit that the turnaround was achieved within a few days by one single agency was factually incorrect.
Sources said that the LG has also said that the foot-overbridge near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which had collapsed a few days before the beginning of the games, had also been rebuilt by the army following his suggestion.
But it was made to sound that the Delhi government had made the suggestion, the sources said.
The LG said that the additional staff provided under CM's directions by MCD and NDMC have been basically deployed for outside cleaning of the landscape area in the residential zone of the Village and for some cleaning by the NDMC staff in the common areas of towers like lifts and staircases. None of them have, however, been involved in the deep cleaning of washrooms and other tasks.
Dikshit's claim, the LG said, was demoralising for the personnel of all other agencies, who have been working earnestly.
He said that he had visited the Village in the last week of August and had stressed on the need for Games Organising Committee to establish custodial control over all flats and deployment of staff for housekeeping.
Days before the games were about to begin, the incomplete and "filthy" Games Village had come in for severe criticism from foreign delegates and the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).
Following this, Dikshit had been directed to take over the maintenance and cleanliness of the Village.
The maintenance and housekeeping was earlier assigned to Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which is under the ministry of urban development, and lieutenant governor is the controlling authority in the national Capital.
Dikshit had said that the Village when it was handed over to her was in a "frightening" condition. "I thought we would never be able to get things ready. There were more than 6,000 flats in total mess. There was no water, power was not reliable, lifts were not working, it was filthy, terrible," she said.
In four days, things were made better, she had claimed.
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