Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday made a pitch for making Delhi a clean city and sought people’s participation it the effort. Speaking at the Independence Day celebrations, Dikshit commended the people for their initiatives to make the Capital one of the greenest cities in the world. “Delhi’s next aim should be to be the cleanest. It was because of the peoples’ initiatives that Delhi became a green capital and now it is up to the Delhiites to make it a clean city,” she said. Dikshit, who unfurled the Tricolour in the morning, outlined her government’s key focus areas that included infrastructure, education and promoting sports. To ease traffic, she said her government wanted to run monorails along the lines of the ones in Japan and Singapore. The plan for bringing in a monorail in East Delhi has been recently approved by the Cabinet. Referring to her last month meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Dikshit said an agreement has been signed with the Singapore government to set up an institute for skill development. Acknowledging wrestler Sushil Kumar’s Olympic silver medal feat, she said the city government will provide all required facilities and infrastructure to budding sportspersons. “The entire nation is proud of Sushil’s achievement and it is in this stadium that Sushil underwent training,” she said. Dikshit said she hoped Kumar would definitely strike gold in the next Olympics. She said her government has pushed for substantial improvement in the transport sector, infrastructure and traffic, which has become smoother than before. “A large number of flyovers and underpasses have been helpful in bringing about this change. Monorail would be laid in congested areas where it would be difficult for the Metro to reach. The work on the first monorail project from Shastri Park to Trilokpuri would begin in the next few months,” Dikshit said. On regularisation of unauthorised colonies, she said the government has decided to regularise over 900 unauthorised colonies very soon.