To free the city from open defecation and to maintain cleanliness in city, Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) Commissioner Manish Singh has instructed the officials concerned to take stern action against those who do not follow the rules.
Informing about it, health officer of the IMC Rajesh Jaiswal said that there were complaints of open defecation and littering of garbage by employees and other citizens neat State Employees Insurance Hospital, Nanda Nagar. Many times written notices and warnings were sent by IMC to the authorities and security agency of the hospital. But, no action was taken against it.
Besides, shockingly a utility centre is located near the hospital, but instead of using the utility centre, complaints of open defecation and littering was continuously received. Moreover, there were complaints against the security guards of the hospital that they never stopped anyone from violating the rules.
In series of receiving continuous complaints about open defecation and litter IMC health Officer Rajesh Jaiswal along with the zonal official Bhaskar Moyde, CSI Bhanwar Ghanwri and a team of other health officials met director of hospital Sanjeev Singh on Monday. They lodged the objection about open defecation and littering in the hospital premises.
Besides, the officials charged a spot fine of Rs 2,000 from Chadra Singh of Somnath Security Agency. Director of hospital Sanjeev Singh said that it was the responsibility of security agency to take care that such things should not happen. They should have stopped people from defecating and littering inside the hospital premises.
He further said that hospital authorities is in support of IMC’s cleanliness drive and in future it will be seen that all the instructions given by IMC and steps taken towards cleanliness will be followed by the hospital.