The workers of KRL company, responsible for lifting municipal waste in Haridwar shall now work at night too. With the Char Dham pilgrimage in full swing and holy month of Ramadan, this decision has been taken by the municipal commissioner of Haridwar.
The garbage shall be lifted from areas of Jwalapur, Har ki Paidi and Upper
Road where the pilgrim rush is more.
With the pressure of floating population increasing during Yatra season, the Haridwar municipal commissioner Alok Pandey has directed the management of KRL waste management company to pick garbage from the main areas of the city near Har ki Paidi.
To bring the sanitation system on track, the sanitation workers have been asked to work in day and night shifts.
The garbage collection vehicles shall be lifting garbage from Upper Road, Har ki Paidi, railway station, bus stand and Jwalapur railway station. Speaking to The Pioneer, Pandey said, “The only solution to cope up with the increasing number of pilgrims coming to the city is to optimise the present resources to the maximum.
The directives have been passed to the waste management company to work from tonight in lifting garbage from the crowded areas.
Our team shall be monitoring the work done at regular intervals.”
Before the onset of monsoon season, the city mayor Anita Sharma inspected the drain cleaning in Jwalapur area. She asked the workers to expedite the cleaning process and complete it by the end of May.