Tiruchi Corporation has acquired 400 buckets and 100
pushcarts for its sanitary workers to carry out their day-to-day task of
collecting garbage in the city.

The buckets and the
pushcarts were handed over to sanitary workers by Mayor A.Jaya in the
presence of V.P.Thandapani, Corporation Commissioner, Asick Meera,
Deputy Mayor, and elected representatives of the Corporation here on
Tuesday.

According to a Corporation press release,
the buckets and puscharts were purchased at a cost of Rs.10.74 lakhs
under the Integrated Urban Development Programme for improving solid
waste management in the city. The buckets of 50 litres capacity were
purchased at a cost of Rs.2.29 lakhs and the non-corrosive pushcarts at a
cost of Rs.8.45 lakhs. The four zones were allotted 25 pushcarts each.
The Mayor also disclosed that Corporation was taking steps to provide
safety gear to sanitary workers at a cost of Rs.18 lakhs.