DC, Hazaribagh, Ravishankar Shukla reviewed the preparations of upcoming cleanliness survey 2018 with the officials of district administration, Hazaribagh Municipal Corporation and Private sector units here on Friday.
During the review meeting, it came in the notice of Shukla that the HMC staffs are not getting their salaries for last four to five months. The same situation is with the payment of staffs of PSU also. Taking decision on the spot, he ordered to pay the salary and wages to all those involved in cleanliness drive immediately.
He also directed to give Rs 1000 as bonus to all employees involved in this process specially those who are directly involved in keeping the city clean. He also directed to issue photo I-cards to them and to bring them under the umbrella of insurance.
Shukla announced in the meeting that from December 31 massive cleanliness drive will be launched in the city. He along with his officials and members of ‘my city my responsibility’ group will participate in the cleaning of local lake area which will start from the cleaning of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. He also announced that this cleanliness drive will be led by the local brand ambassador Seema Modi.
Regarding the collection of garbage and its disposal DC gave some important instructions in this meeting. He ordered to give two tippers to the NGO Nai Kiran engaged in the duty of door to door garbage collection.
He also directed the Municipal Corporation officials to install GPS in the vehicles which carries garbage from the city to the dumping yard so that their movement can be monitored.
The members advised installation of sign boards in the city to show the site of nearest community toilet of the area. Some members also advised to arrange movable toilets at some important points of the town so that people can take its advantage. The Municipal Corporation officials immediately announced availability of two such toilets from tomorrow, one each at Jhanda chowk and other one at Inderpuri Chowk which are known as the busiest part of the town.
In this meeting it was decided to make it mandatory for the hotels and restaurants, availability of garbage pit in their premises. Those who will not follow it will have to pay fine.
The matter of due rent of Municipal Corporation shops was raised in this meeting also and DC directed the officials to give a short time to all such shopkeepers and if they do not pay the rent then to start legal action against them.
In this meeting SDO Aditya Ranjan, deputy mayor Annand Dev, EO Municipal Corporation Ashish Kumar, Seema Modi, city manager Arvind Kumar, Rajesh Kumar and others were present.