A team of students, teachers and staff members of St Xavier’s High School on Monday launched a cleanliness drive in association with Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) in Telibandha Market. The drive was aimed to create awareness about ‘Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan’ and to encourage people to contribute in maintaining cleanliness at public places. RMC zone-3 commissioner, zone executive engineer and health officer pressed manpower and machinery to help the school students in their sanitation drive.
The students urged all the organisations and schools to come forward to make ‘Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan’ a success.later, Chhattisgarh Builders Association (CREDAI) donated 50 dustbins to be installed around ‘Swami Vivekanand lake’ (Budha Talab) to maintain cleanliness here. The civic body has decided to inscribe cleanliness slogans at the boundary wall of this historic lake. RMC also carried out an intensive cleanliness drive in residential townships developed under BSUP scheme of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
The municipal commissioner instructed the officials concerned to solve problem pertaining to drinking water supply in these townships. This apart, RMC started door-to-door garbage collection in Ward number 30 and 31 under zone-3. The civic body, with the help rickshaw container, collected door-to-door garbage from the residents of these two wards and dumped the same at Sarona situated trenching ground.