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Initiatives Taken
For the all-round development of the city, following steps were taken:
- Collection at Night: A few new steps were approved by the Corporation like collection of food waste at night from the food stalls in the market areas on experiment basis.
- Express cleaning system: Collection of garbage from the apartments, restaurants, hotels, private hospitals (no paramedical garbage) on a daily basis and payment basis through privatisation
- Sanitation awareness week programme was organised. A sanitation awareness chariot moved through each ward and apprised people through announcement how to make their environment cleaner and healthier. Drinking water pouches were banned.
- New Dustbins were distributed to the food stalls and slum dwellers. Over 1000 dustbins were distributed, sponsored by Banks under CSR. College and School children participated in different rallies to support this cause. Leaflets were distributed, flexes were put up and a toll-free number was activated to help speeding communication. Some of the unclean transit points were cleaned by the Commissioner, other officials with the help of local people. Instructions issued to all municipal shops to keep dustbins in their shops otherwise fines at `50 per day will be collected.
- Water management Committee and sanitation committee were constituted.
- Street vendors were asked to put up small posters to encourage awareness about cleaning & hygiene. All sweepers were
asked to put jackets for their identification and regular sweeping. Ponds were cleaned by local Corporates and Corporation officials. . People were warned not to throw domestic garbage and polythene bags in water bodies or drains. Almost 10 kilometres of drain were cleaned every day to prevent waterborne diseases. - Commissioner and health officer supervised the sanitation of the city in the mornings on a regular basis.
Besides this much more steps need to be taken like construction of more community toilets with maintenance accountability, segregation of waste at source itself by janitors, participation of public in the day-to-day sanitation work in their lane and increased involvement of Corporates, NGOs and other committees in the ongoing sanitation work in the City. Authority, the trustee and other committee members must apprised not to throw ritual wastage in the ponds even which make the ponds more unclean. Lifting of pipelines from drain need to be taken immediately. Greenery in the roadside and more open space very much required.
