: Public meetings or Jan Sabhas were held and will be organised again on Sunday to seek public opinion on the Odd Even scheme and whether to introduce it again.
MLAs from 12 assembly constituencies including Delhi Cantonment, Kasturba Nagar, Greater Kailash, Malviya Nagar, Jangpura, Chattarpur, Karol Bagh, Tilak Nagar, Wazirpur, Mundka, Nangloi Jat and Madipur held jan sabhas in their respective constituencies to know people’s views on the scheme with several legislators claiming that opinion in favour of the continuation of the scheme was overwhelming.
“Delhi wants #oddevenformula back soon...says the jansabha held at Sarvpriya Vihar in my constituency. 3 more scheduled jansabhas tomorrow,” Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti tweeted. “People have demanded to start the scheme again,” added Tilak Nagar MLA Jarnail Singh.
The initiative will also continue tomorrow in 13 Assembly constituencies such as Shakur Basti, Greater Kailash, Mehrauli, R K Puram, Ballimaran, Wazirpur, Karol Bagh, Jangpura, Chattarpur, Model Town, Kasturba Nagar, Madipur and Sadar Bazaar. “It is a Delhi government event and will continue even tomorrow,” said Greater Kailash MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj.
The Aam Aadmi Party-led (AAP) Delhi government has decided to gather public opinion on the proposed second phase of the odd-even car rationing scheme by directly reaching out to at least 10 lakh residents through “automated calls”, supplementing a phone line and email address that are already in force.
Calls are also being made through Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology, used by telecom companies among others, and are giving people a number of options on the proposed measure to choose from. The government has already opened a dedicated phone line, a website, put up on line forms and launched an email address on a six-point questionnaire on the scheme.
According to a government official, over 10,000 online forms have been downloaded in less than a week, more than 8,500 email responses have been submitted and around 45,000 calls made so far.
