Freddy Svane, the Danish ambassador to India, has appealed for immediate action in response to the deteriorating state of cleanliness in the vicinity of the Danish and Greek embassies in New Delhi.
The envoy expressed his disgust at the unattractive surroundings and urged the authorities to give tangible action priority in order to rectify the state of affairs.
The Denmark envoy gave vent to his feelings on a video posted on social media platform X which was captioned, “Lovely and green New Delhi. Many words but no action. Saddened by this”.
“Welcome to great green and trashy New Delhi. Here we have the Danish embassy, and we have the Greek embassy over there. This should be a service lane. But you see, it’s full of trash, and people are just dumping whatever they like to do here. So I hope somebody will listen to this and take action. No more nice words. Just action,” Svane said in the video.
He had tagged Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena in the video.
Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena voiced similar concerns earlier in March, prompting the envoy’s appeal for action.
Saxena had posted pictures of the national capital’s civic problems, highlighting his responsibility to alert the chief minister to these problems.
In response to the comments, Arvind Kejriwal thanked Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena for bringing attention to the problems in the South Delhi neighborhood of Sangam Vihar. Kejriwal promised to solve the flaws that were found and acknowledged the significance of doing so within a week.
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Denmark envoy takes to social media, slams authorities over ‘great green and trashy New Delhi’
