In order to encourage its sanitation workers, the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) awarded them with ‘Swachchhta Award’ for maintaining sanitation and cleanliness in the New Delhi area,
Rashmi Singh, Secretary of NDMC awarded 42 workers, four beldars, six school children and 12 drivers in a function organized at convention centre of NDMC.
Speaking on the occasion, Rashmi said that the safai karmacharis have been playing the role of Swachhta Doots in the society for transforming the New Delhi area into a hygienic, livable and healthy environment. “They can play a very crucial role in making the swachha mission a mass movement,” she said. The civic body had instituted this award to honour its workers every month for keeping the area clean.