The Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) is scheduled to kick-start a sanitation campaign to improve cleanliness facilities in various areas of the city from Monday. The campaign would continue till May 31.
Under the campaign, BMC squads would clean sewers and would dispose garbage at the disposal site on daily basis. Mayor Krishna Gaur gave instructions to the BMC Zonal Officers to keep an eye over the campaign in their respective zones and finish the work within stipulated timeframe.
Further, BMC Commissioner Vishesh Gadhpale has appointed Nodal Officers for each zone. The team of nodal officials includes Deputy City Engineer (civil) Mukesh Sharma who has been appointed as nodal officer for zone 01 and 02. City Engineer (Water Works) BK Chowdhary has been appointed as nodal official for zone 03 and 04, Assistant Engineer (Civil) Rajesh Singh for zone 05 and 06, Assistant Engineer (Civil) RK Saxena for zone 07 and 08, Deputy City Engineer (Civil) lS Kaushik for zone 09 and 13, Deputy City Engineer (Civil) Roshan lal Sharma for zone 10 and 11 and Deputy City Engineer (Civil) OP Bharadwaj has been appointed as nodal official for zone 12 and 14.
All the nodal officers would work in coordination with officer-in-charge of Sewer Cleanliness Campaign Mumtaz Rasool and would submit a report everyday to the BMC Additional Commissioner and BMC Commissioner. On Monday, the sanitation campaign would begin at Abbas Nagar at zone 01, Prabhu Nagar ward 08 under zone 02, Ravidaspura ward 10 under zone 03, Azad Market ward 18 under zone 04, Chheh Kodi Mandir ward 21 under zone 05 to Irani Dera at ward 66 under zone 14. The sanitation campaign would be carried out in all zones everyday till May 31.
Meanwhile, the BMC anti-encroachment squad removed illegal hoardings from certain areas of the city on Sunday. The squad is continuously taking action against those erecting advertisement boards and illegal hoardings without BMC permission.
Under the action, squad removed 51 illegal hoardings and 220 small size advertisement boards including a large number of flex boards. Implementing the directions given by Mayor Krishna Gaur and BMC Commissioner Vishesh Gadhpale the squad removed hoardings from Misrod Road, Jyoti Talkies and BRTS Corridor.The squad removed encroachments creating obstacles in the smooth movement of traffic. The squad also appealed the encroachers not to encroach on footpaths and public places else, action would be taken against them.