Ranchi Municipal Corporation will celebrate 37th foundation day on Tuesday in grand style and to mark the moment when it came into existence the municipal body will be rolling out a host of activities aimed at establishing goodwill among the residents of Ranchi.
The grand celebration will take place at Birsa Munda Football stadium at Morhabadi and Chief Minister, Raghubar Das will be the chief guest and Urban Development Minister, CP Singh will be the distinguished guest of the ceremony.
As the officials of the RMC are prepared to recite achievements under their belt with regard to better administration of the city, online system for water connection would be formally inaugurated on September 15 to bring the master of city’s administration further close to the people of the city. The online system will facilitate application filing through any community service centre or personal computer.
The RMC will also felicitate people for keeping the city clean besides equipping its cleaning staffs with accessories required to maintain better cleanliness in the city.
“This foundation day would be a milestone in the direction of good governance for the city. We will connect people with the municipal corporation and we will felicitate ‘Swacchta Doot’,” said Mayor, RMC, Asha lakra here at a media briefing.
As many as 11 ‘Swacchta Doot’ will be felicitated on the occasion where as the staffs entrusted with the task of keeping the city clean will be equipped with gloves, boot, jacket and mask to ease their job of lifting the garbage from the 55 municipal wards.
The foundation day celebration will start at 7am with ‘cleanliness run’ from Sainik Market in Main Road to Morhabadi which will spread the message of cleanliness. The ‘cleanliness run’ will be flagged off by the CM.
The Mayor informed city specific goals, projects in pipelines and efforts to be made for making Ranchi count among the smart cities in the country. lakra also expressed that the corporation will incorporate views of all and sundry to transform Ranchi into a smart city as per the parameters of the central government in this regard.
“We have to make Ranchi a smart city and for that we will hold meetings with all ward councillors to take note of their views. Whatever views that will surface in the meeting will be implemented,” added lakra.
Notably, the RMC will construct six thousand toilets in the capital at Rs 2-crore sanctioned by the central government for the project. The Mayor asserted that the city’s sewerage-drainage will be augmented as the project has been awarded to the qualified bidder for zone-1.
Meanwhile, cleanliness drive to remove garbage and hyacinth from water bodies splashed across the city begun today with Ranchi lake. The activity was monitored by the Urban Development Minister and officials of the RMC including Town Commissioner, Prashant Kumar.
The cleanliness drive will slowly target other prominent water bodies and will be complete before chhath puja when the devotees flock these water bodies to practice the usual rituals.
The Minister expressed that the cleanliness should be for long term and emphasised on regular efforts to remove garbage off the surface of water bodies.