The Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has launched a special cleanliness drive ‘Ye Diwali-Swachhata Wali’ from October 15th to 27th October to keep the city clean and beautiful with the focus on reuse, reduce and recycle under Swachh Bharat Mission.
Instructions were given in a meeting held on Friday under the chairpersonship of Anindita Mitra, Commissioner, which was attended by all the senior officers of MCC including Chief Engineer, Superintending Engineers and Medical Officer of Health. During the meeting the Commissioner directed the officers concerned to clean the city streets, backlanes, parks, market areas, open spaces, road berms etc. by deploying all its machinery and equipment before Diwali. She directed them to prepare special task teams to deal with the pruning of trees, lifting of horticulture waste, cleaning of road berms, market areas, open spaces besides putting additional manpower for proper sanitation.
Additional machinery alongwith tractor trolleys have been pressed into service to lift the malba, horticulture waste from the open spaces. The Commissioner said that the special teams will also clean up the city after the Diwali festival.