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J.D. Kapoor, President - Whenever there is chaos, may be of any kind in any field in this city every authority starts passing the buck onto each other. It is rightly said that too many cooks spoil the broth. May be this is the price capital city has to pay for having multiplicity of authorities.

2. At the outset we feel constrained to observe that year after year Municipal Corporation of Delhi makes tall claims of cleansing and de-silting of drains of the city that are about 1296 in number which are more than four feet in depth and width spending crores of rupees but every time whenever there is little heavy rains, most of the roads get water-logged due to overflowing drains as life of entire city goes haywire. MCD made tall claims before us by filing a highly detailed affidavit in the year 2006 projecting that it had de-silted and cleansed all the drains and nullahs by keeping all the 96 pumping stations functional around the year and also deploying portable pumps and by setting up control rooms all over and also creating Sanitation Task Force in each zone which is equipped with