The Hindu 03.07.2013
Guntur gears up for sanitation contest
At the strike of dawn on Thursday, the roads in the town
are going to witness a frenzied activity. Blowing shrill whistles,
hundreds of sanitary workers will be on the roads wheeling their push
carts collecting residential waste from houses and some others would
busy in clearing the clogged drains.
The bustling
town and a nerve centre of trading activity is all set to see the final
and decisive round of Clean City Championship from Wednesday. The Guntur
Municipal Corporation is only the second municipality in the State
after Warangal to host the championship aimed at making the town free of
garbage.
Minister for Agriculture Kanna
Lakshminarayana will launch the programme at a municipal school in KVP
Colony. MLA-Guntur East, Sk. Mastan Vali will launch the programme at
Siva Nagaraju Colony. District Collector and Special Officer of Guntur
Municipal Corporation S. Suresh Kumar, who is the main driving force
behind the drive called, ‘Oorante Gunture’, asked the entire personnel
of the GMC to be geared up for the event.
Additional
Commissioner P. Srinivasalu is the nodal officer for the programme. He
said that 481 push carts are being pressed on Thursday in a massive
operation aimed at cleaning up the city. As many as 60 transporting
units are ready with their route maps. The route officers are geared up
with field plans.
Modelled on the hugely popular IPL,
the Clean City Championship is an exciting competition among the
sanitary personnel to make their wards clean and free from garbage.
Workers would be given points on the basis of their performance in
collecting waste from households, transporting the segregated waste to
points, etc.,,
Sanitation workers will be given prizes based on their performance.
