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.