The Hindu        Karnataka (Mysore)     06.09.2016 

MCC to constitute special task force to keep city clean during Dasara

Clean and tidy:Over 270 civic and health workers would be roped in to ensure cleanliness across Mysuru city during Dasara, says Mayor B.L. Bhyrappa.— FILE PHOTO

The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to set up a special task force (comprising health and civic workers) to keep the city clean during the upcoming Dasara festivities. Mayor B.L. Bhyrappa told The Hindu here on Saturday that over 270 civic workers and health workers would be roped in to ensure cleanliness across the city, particularly in the core areas where Dasara programmes would be held.

The task force will also include a mobile team to address the issues immediately at the Dasara venues. However, sanitation and collection of garbage and its disposal would continue as usual in the rest of the city, the Mayor added. Mr. Bhyrappa said MCC is taking additional care to keep the city clean during Dasara. Mysuru was ranked the cleanest city in the country for the second consecutive year this year by the Union government.

Meanwhile, health workers would take all necessary steps, including fogging, to prevent any possible outbreak of vector-borne diseases.

Health workers would also discourage people, particularly tourists and traders from using plastic bags, the Mayor said.

Mr. Bhyrappa said that while one team would clean the route of the Dasara procession, the other would follow the procession cleaning the route. Road sweeping machines would also be used extensively in the city's core areas, including prominent roads such as D. Devaraj Urs Road, Sayyaji Rao Road and Albert Victor Road. Mr. Byrappa said that with the present storage in Krishnaraja Sagar and Kabini reservoirs, drinking water can be supplied to the entire city till the second week of December.