The Times of India                09.11.2010

LMC conducts cleanliness drive; ten challaned

LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Municipal Corporation ( LMC) conducted a special cleanliness drive in various zones of the state capital, two days before it appears before the high court with its explanation vis-a-vis efforts to curb disease outbreak in various localities.

In zone-1 the drive was carried out in Ganeshganj, Bhedi Mandi, Wazir Hasan Road and Gurudwara Road. Officials sprayed insecticides and disposed off silt lying along the choked drains. A similar drive was carried out on Subash Chandra Bose Marg of zone-2. In wards like Chandra Bhanu Gupt, municipal officials were face to face with the prevailing pathetic civic amenities. As many as seven persons were challaned under the UP municipal Act. Fogging too was done in localities like Aishbagh, Tilaknagar and Subhash Chandra Bose ward.

The special drive also extended to zone-3 covering Mahanagar, Aloknagar and Niralanagar where municipal authorities challaned three persons for littering. In zone-4, the cleanliness drive was carried out in Nishatganj, mainly in lane numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 6, Colvin Taluqdar ward, New Hyderabad, Old Hyderabad, Ghazipur, Gwari Gaon and Luv Kush nagar. The Old City area too was covered under the drive. In Chowk, municipal officials took stock of the prevailing civic situation in Kaliji Chowk and Hussainabad area.