The Hindu 04.07.2013
Minister launches Clean City Championship
Minister for Agriculture Kanna Lakshminarayana on Wednesday launched the Clean City Championship in Guntur West constituency.
The week-long sanitation campaign would be kicked off on Thursday morning.
Addressing
a gathering of sanitary workers on Municipal High school premises at
KVP Colony, Mr. Lakshminarayana called for people’s participation to
make the programme a success.
The Minister called for enforcement of a complete ban on use of plastic in the town.
The
Minister showed his solidarity with the campaign by wheeling the
pushcart to a short distance along with women sanitary workers.
Member of Legislative Council K.S Lakshmana Rao hoped that the innovative campaign would show a way in dealing with garbage.
District
Collector and Special officer of GMC, S. Suresh Kumar, said the
programme was modelled on IPL. In a competitive spirit, sanitation
workers would vie with one another in making the city garbage free.
Points would be given to workers by SHG members.
He
appealed to residents to cooperate by separating the waste into dry and
wet waste and place them in two separate bags or bins. The house keepers
would be given cards on which they have to mark the attendance of
sanitary workers.
Every morning between 5.30 a.m. and
7.30 a.m, sanitary workers would arrive on streets blowing whistle.
People should give them the waste covers instead of throwing them on
roads or in canals. The town has been divided into 482 routes and each
push cart would be manned by two persons.
Mr. Suresh
Kumar said that about 400 M.T of waste was being generated in the town
having a road network of 1, 630 k.m and a drain network of 1, 850 k.m.
Municipal Commissioner K. Venkateswarlu, Additional Commissioner P. Srinivasulu, Municipal Health Officer Sridhar were present.
