India, March 22 -- New Delhi

Delhi Public Works Department (PWD) minister Parvesh Verma on Friday ordered the suspension of the executive engineer in charge of East Vinod Nagar, Patparganj, for alleged negligence in the timely cleaning of drains.

The minister was inspecting road repairs done over the past month in Trilokpuri and Patparganj when he noticed that the drain along the road had overgrowth, was not cleaned and desilted, and had turned into a garbage dump.

"The maintenance of roads is done by PWD, and the cleaning of drains alongside PWD roads is also the responsibility of the same department. We saw that the drain cleaning was not done, and I have asked the executive engineer concerned to be suspended for negligence in his jo...