The Hindu 30.10.2014
Municipal bodies plan post-Chhath clean up
With thousands gathering on the banks of the Yamuna
across Delhi to celebrate Chhath, municipal corporations are getting
ready to clean up after the rituals.
The festival
will conclude with people standing in the river to make offerings of
fruit and food to the sun by 8 a.m. on Thursday. After that, the job of
the municipal corporations and the Delhi Government’s Irrigation and
Flood Control Department will start.
According to
municipal officials, the Irrigation Department cleans the shallow parts
of the river and deposits the waste at the banks, which is then lifted
by the civic body. “Our sanitation workers and trucks will be at the
banks by Thursday afternoon to start the cleaning,” said North
Corporation spokesperson Y.S. Mann. The Corporation had put up temporary
garbage bins along the
ghats
during the festival to keep littering at the minimum.
The South Delhi Municipal Corporation, which has three
ghats
under its jurisdiction, will deploy sanitation workers along the banks on Thursday.
