Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 7: In the prevailing situation arising due to outbreak of Coronavirus pandemic, the team of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) is putting extra effort to keep the city clean. The sanitation drive was started since March 23 and is continuing, where during the drive, JMC has covered various expansive areas, extended wards like Barnai, Sunjwan, the roads of Talab Tillo, Trikuta Nagar, National Highway like Narwal Highway, Sidhra Highway which was facing a problem of accumulation of garbage since years had been intensively cleared by the teams of sanitation.
During the drive desilting has also been done in deep drains falling in these areas & huge dumps & garbage also removed so as to give clean, healthy atmosphere around and improved sanitation to the general public. Further on many chronic areas twin dustbins have been installed. Apart from daily and routine lifting of garbage from entire JMC areas, more than 2000 tonnes of garbage and silt has also been collected & transported to the dumping site at Kot Bhalwal as a result of these drives.
In addition simultaneous desilting has also been carried out on daily basis in Kunj Vihar Sector 4, Nanak Nagar, Landoi Choi nallah, Kabir Colony nallah and Talab Tillo nallah in which more than 4800 MT of silt has been removed till date.
JMC deployed both men and machinery for special drive conducted on the directions of Avny Lavasa, Commissioner and under overall supervision of Tinna Mahajan, Secretary JMC. The deployment included four to six no JCB /10 to 12 tippers/25 to 35 nallah labour and 100 to 150 SKCs on daily basis.
Besides above, today JMC in coordination with Fire Brigade, Jammu and Agriculture Department have put four boom sprayers and two new mist sprayers into service for cleaning main roads like Asia road, Airport road, Fly over, Tawi bridges, Gandhi Nagar roads, Jewel roads, Indira Chowk, Ambphalla roads etc. to stop every possibility of spreading Corona Virus. JMC shall continue to undertake such sanitation drives by putting more men and machinery to maintain proper sanitation and hygiene during these days.
The Commissioner, JMC further appealed to the general public to maintain proper sanitation, as without the help of citizens it is hard to achieve the desired results and to make Jammu a clean city.
Among others Health Officer, MVO, CTO, field staff’ of Transport & Sanitation Wing continue to put their best efforts during the drive, a JMC handout issued here said.
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