“We want to know whether you (Centre) have any disaster management plan. Do you have a policy which deals with graded responses to the situation and provides what action would be taken at which stage? The Solicitor General said unregulated “commercialisation” and “industrialisation” of Delhi was one of the reasons for the present situation. Meanwhile, Delhi government informed the court that it has so far acquired six vacuum cleaning vehicles and two have been already made functional. “Do you have any estimate as to how many such vehicles you want to get to deal with the situation,” the bench asked.

Source: Indian Express November 08, 2016 14:27 UTC