Strict action against citizens littering busy market places, footpaths and other public places is being taken by Bhopal Municipal Corporation and on-spot fines on the shopkeepers of MP Nagar who were found littering.
Under the supervision of BMC Deputy Commissioner Harish Gupta the penalty was imposed on shop keepers. Food stall vendors selling tea, Chinese, liquor shop, seat cover, sofa manufacturers, car decorators and other shops were penalised and collected `20,000 as spot fine from the shop keepers.
A total of 50 shopkeepers were fined for littering the roads and nearby areas and during the action and penalising process the shop keepers were instructed to use dustbin for dumping the garbage and waste of their shops keeping the roads and vicinity clean and warned that if failing to maintaining the roads and nearby areas clean would attract penalty and the process would be continuous.
Shopkeepers should mandatorily use shopkeepers which could help in the proper disposal of waste in the area and would not create heaps of garbage in the busy market places, footpath and other public places.
Meanwhile city Mayor Alok Sharma inspected Gandhi Medical College which would host Doctors Diamond Jubilee programme on December 19 and 20, 2015.