As an attempt to increase the probability of Dehradun city falling to rank in top 100 cleanest cities of the country, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will start a cleanliness drive from Thursday which will last till March. To make this drive a success, the corporation has even hired 40 sanitation workers from another city. The chief municipal health officer Dr Kailash Joshi has formed teams of municipal sanitation inspectors and sanitation workers to carry out the drive across the city. Informing about this drive, Joshi said that the sanitation workers will clean the garbage lying on roads besides clearing the roadside garbage dumped by locals in various locations of Dehradun.
Though the cleaning tasks are done regularly by MCD, the teams will also raise awareness among locals about maintaining cleanliness in the city as well as about forthcoming Swachh Survekshan 2021, added Joshi. He further informed that that MCD has hired about 40 sanitation workers of another city to work under this campaign in Dehradun till March. Meanwhile, the corporation has received over 75,000 feedback through Swachhata-MoHUA app which helps the city to get additional marks in the Swacch Survekshan.
“The response of the public is good but we still appeal to people to give their feedback on the sanitation facilities in the city,” said Joshi. It is pertinent to mention here that the public feedback for Swachh Survekshan 2021 started from December 1, which will culminate by March 31.
Thursday, 11 February 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
