After 9th dirtiest city tag, Amritsar Mayor chalks out cleanliness strategy

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 17

After getting ninth rank among the dirtiest cities in the country, with a population of over 10 lakh category, under the Swachh Survekshan Survey 2020, Mayor Karamjit Singh held series of discussions with the councillors of different wards in all five assembly constituencies in Amritsar.

The Mayor held a meeting with councillors of the Amritsar East Assembly constituency and said that the city was ranked ninth among the dirtiest cities in the survey which was very disappointing. He said that the entire responsibility of cleanliness did not lie with the sanitation department alone but it was the responsibility of every citizen to keep their surroundings clean and dump the garbage in dustbins. The Mayor said that the councillors had elected him as the first citizen of the city and therefore he considered the first responsibility for the lack of cleanliness as his own. He said that besides development works, sanitation works were also important and with our own efforts this shortcoming could be removed.

Karamjit Singh Rintu said during the pandemic everyone had served the people of the city with utmost diligence and delivered door-to-door rations to the needy but unfortunately we had lagged behind in terms of sanitation.

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