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.
