Indian Express 11.03.2010
Civic body to hire drivers, clean city at night
Express News Service Tags : corporation, civic body to hire drivers Posted: Thursday , Mar 11, 2010 at 0350 hrs
Chandigarh: The Municipal Corporation has decided to introduce the concept of night sweeping using mechanised sweeping machines.For this, the city would be divided into three zones — sectors north of Madhya Marg; Madhya Marg towards Dakshin Marg; and southern sectors.
The decision was taking during a meeting of the sanitation committee on Wednesday. It was also decided that the machines would function for 12 hours every day instead of the present eight hours.
The committee suggested three new drivers should be hired as the present strength was not sufficient.
Though the corporation had bought sweeping machines to initiate night sweeping, they were being used during the day often leading to traffic disruptions.
The committee also decided to outsource the maintenance of sehaj safai kendras (SSKs). There are around 30 centres in different sectors of the city but they lack maintenance. Complaints have been received about ragpickers entering SSKs and sifting through the garbage. Keeping in view the decreasing number of sweepers in the city, it was decided to increase their strength through outsourcing.
The meeting was held under the chairpersonship of Sarita Devi and attended by Pardeep Chhabra, Jatinder Bhatia, Surinder Kumar Jagota, Manjit Singh Chohan, Dr Neelam Malik and other officers.
Chhabra said stress would be laid on increasing the cleanliness level of the city.
