The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will not carry out thorough sanitisation of all the wards as it had done in the past two months. This responsibility has now been handed over to the councillors of the wards.
The MCD spent Rs 2.50 lakh last month for the transportation of one percentage sodium hypochlorite disinfectant to Dehradun from Kota.
According to Dehradun municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey, it was easier to sanitise the wards during the first and second phases of the lockdown but due to the relaxations provided in the third phase of the lockdown, the places which were earlier empty are now crowded. Therefore, the corporation has provided the councillors of each ward with 100 litres of one percentage sodium hypochlorite to sanitise their respective wards, said Pandey. "The markets and other public areas are regularly being sanitised by MCD. We are also sanitising the buses and trains through which the people from other states are arriving here," added Pandey.
He further informed that MCD received 26,000 litres of one percentage sodium hypochlorite disinfectant last month from a Kota based company free of charge. The corporation spent about Rs 2.50 lakh for the transportation of disinfectant to Dehradun, added Pandey. He stated that 10,000 litres of this disinfectant have been given to the councillors of 100 wards along with the spray machines. "The councillors can ask for more disinfectant as per their need. The corporation still has 16,000 litres of disinfectant in stock," said municipal health officer Dr Kailash Joshi.