News: Green belts, roads cleared of garbage & illegal ads-06-12-2020
GURUGRAM: As many as 800 sanitation workers of the MCG carried out a sanitation drive in ward 28 on Saturday. Besides clearing C&D waste, teams from the advertisement branch have also removed illegal ads from the area. MCG officials said that the idea is to clean an entire ward in one day.
Sanitation workers cleaned green belts, roadsides, vacant plots and other areas and also removed C&D waste from several areas. Moreover, teams of the horticulture department pruned trees and cleared unkempt grass. The civic body used tractor trolleys, pruning machines and JCB for carrying out the drive. The sanitation department teams also sprinkled water to comply with the graded response action plan (GRAP).
“There were certain challenges to clean one ward in a day but the feedback from residents was overwhelming. We plan to implement it in other wards, however, we will first discuss about today’s drive in a meeting on Monday and then plan accordingly,” said Pradeep Ahlawat, joint commissioner 4, MCG.
MCG officials said that the idea was also to change the perception of the corporation.
The major areas covered in the drive in Ward 28 includes Sector 38, Sector 39, Jharsa, Prempuri, Islampur, Bhaktawar Chowk, Subhash Chowk to Rajiv Chowk and surrounding roads, streets.
Residents of Sector 38 also submitted a charter of demands to mayor Madhu Azad during the sanitation drive, demanding beautification of parks, construction of an open gym, benches in park, street lights, re-carpeting of 10m road, old age home and other development works.
Azad said that the residents should also contribute to keep their roads, green belts, streets and surroundings clean.
“Our surroundings should be cleaned. Residents should also participate in the process and ensure that nobody dumps garbage on the roads, green belts,” added Azad.
