The New Delhi Municipal Council has constituted a sanitation response unit (SRU) for technical and managerial interventions for the safety of personnel during sewer cleaning, an official statement said on Saturday.
It said the body under the name of emergency response sanitation unit (ERSU or SRU) is a professional, well-trained, motivated and appropriately equipped establishment for the maintenance and management of sewers, thereby eliminating accidents and fatalities caused by the entry of workers into sewers without proper PPEs and training and non-adherence to security protocols. This response unit will be headed by the NDMC secretary, while Ajay Gupta will be the officer-in-charge of this unit.
