Under the chairmanship of Sub-Collector-cum-Administrator of Umarkote Municipality Karunakar Raika, a meeting on solid waste management was held at the conference hall of the municipality on Monday.
Raika stated that two baskets would be provided to each household to keep waste materials. An awareness drive in this regard would be started immediately. Municipality vehicles and staffs are being engaged to collect waste materials from each household and each household has to pay fifty rupees per month as user fee.
Besides, in order to eradicate the traffic mess in the town, the municipal administration has imposed a ban on loading and unloading of commercial vehicles in the peak hours of the day from 9 am to 11 am and 3 pm to 6 pm. Government land will be provided for parking of auto-rickshaws.
Tehsildar-cum-Municipality Executive Officer Dharmaraj Majhi, Umarkote police station IIC Umesh Kumar Sahu, Umarkote Bar Association president P Sahu and representatives from chambers of commerce, bus and auto-rickshaw unions and other stgakeholders were present in the meeting.