Residents of Sambalpur Municipality have a reason to smile as the
district administration is drawing up plans to improve the sanitation
facilities in the area.
Collector Balwant Singh told this paper
that it has decided to install information board, Interactive Voice
Response System, biometric attendance machine for cleaning staff and
start door to door garbage collection. The information board will be
installed at prominent places in every ward and will contain names and
contact numbers of municipal staff entrusted with cleaning work of the
ward.
The Interactive Voice Response System will facilitate
lodging of complaints by the people. They will be given a complaint
number which will be processed and the complaint redressed.
“The
process will bring about transparency and accountability. It is
important that people of the Wards know their responsibility towards
sanitation,” Singh said adding that the information boards are expected
to be installed by December 1.
Similarly, biometric machine will help check absenteeism which has become a major problem.
Ward
Committees will be formed and volunteers from the Ward selected to man
the biometric machines, said Singh. Likewise to ensure quick removal and
disposal of garbage, door to door collection of domestic waste will be
introduced soon.
The cleaning staff will collect the domestic
waste from doorsteps and take the waste to vehicles, which will be
parked at a predetermined location, Singh added. Stressing on greater
public awareness and co-operation, Singh said use of polythene has to be
shunned. This step of the Collector has evoked enthusiastic response
and locals have volunteered to extend all possible help to improve the
sanitation of the town.
