The Times of India 11.08.2010
Post rain, AMC conducts cleaning drive
AHMEDABAD: With mounds of garbage lying around the city following incessant rains, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities conducted a city cleaning drive involving more than 10,000 AMC employees.
The health department of AMC deployed 7,403 personnel with 268 vehicles for removing garbage in six municipal zones of the city. Nearly 1,741 tons of garbage was removed from roads and 30,920 kg of pesticides was sprinkled in different parts of the city.
Municipal commissioner IP Gautam said, "We have formed a technical committee which is visiting different areas of the walled city for unsafe structures. AMC authorities have served immediate evacuation notice to residents of 11 unsafe buildings. These buildings risk a collapse at any time. In the next three days, more than 300 buildings will be surveyed."
Meanwhile, the solid waste management department of AMC used 532 vehicles which took 893 trips to remove 2,628 tons of garbage in the city.
