In order to maintain cleanliness of the city, a door-to-door garbage collection campaign was launched in Rudrapur in Udham Singh Nagar on Monday. District magistrate, Udham Singh Nagar, Pankaj Kumar Pandey and the mayor, Municipal Corporation of Rudrapur, Soni Kohali, jointly flagged off 10 cycle rickshaws under the door to door civic waste collection campaign in Rudrapur. Speaking on this occasion, DM expressed hope that such door-to-door garbage collection campaign would help maintainthe cleanliness of the city.
At the same time, he stressed on the need to create awareness among the citizens of the importance of the sanitation and cleanliness in the society. Calling upon the people to come forward to join this cleanlines sexercise, mayor, Rudrapur Municipal Corporation, Soni Kohali informed that two contractors have been appointed to look after cleanliness of all 20 wards under the civic body.
While one cycle rickshaw had been deployed earlier for a ward to dispose off the civic wastes now two such rickshawshave been deployed to impart further momentum to the campaign, Kohali added. The contractors will be accountable for the smooth disposal of the civic wastes from all the wards, said the mayor. Mayor further said that the role of councilors in the campaign is great. All of them should cooperate to make the drive a success, Kohali said. Among others, mukhya nagar adhikari, Rudrapur, Dipti Vaishya, assistant nagar adhikari, J C Pandey and councilors were present on the occasion.