Mayor tells MC staff to keep tab on cleanliness

Charanjit Singh Teja

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, September 25

After getting ninth rank among the dirtiest cities in the cleanliness survey, the Municipal Corporation is focusing on sanitation infrastructure in the city. Several amendments were made on administrative level. Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu and Commissioner Municipal Corporation are visiting six to eight municipal wards daily to keep check on sanitation issues and know the problems being faced by public.

The Mayor claimed that we were preparing to get first rank in the cleanliness survey of 2021. “While visiting residential localities of the city, we have observed that it can’t be achieved without public participation. We are making the public aware about the segregation of garbage and other components which matters to get good ranking.

Now, we are following the Central government set rules to get the cleanest city award in the 2021 survey. In Punjab, I am the only Mayor, who is visiting public daily to make them aware of the cleanliness and address other issues to get good ranking in the survey. Apart from this, strict instructions have been given to officials of the health department not to compromise on cleanliness issue in the city. In case of any negligence, the responsibility should be fixed”, said Karamjit Singh Rintu.

On Friday, the city Mayor along with MC Commissioner Komal Mittal, Municipal Health Officers Dr Ajay Kanwar and Dr Yogesh Arora, conducted a meeting with Manoj Gautam, officer of the garbage lifting company and reviewed the door-to-door collection work being done by it. The Mayor said that lifting of garbage should be done timely, without any negligence and there should be no trash along roadsides.

The Mayor said earlier the Municipal Corporation had earned a bad name due to the ‘poor’ performance of the previous solid waste management company. We used to receive a lot of complaints about lifting of garbage. Now we will keep check on the functioning of company.

He asked health officials to monitor cleanliness arrangements in their areas and keep regular check on the lifting of garbage.

Zero tolerance for illegal buildings: rintu

• Charing a meeting of Municipal Town Planning officials deployed in east and north zone on Thursday, Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu sought a list of illegal buildings.
• The meeting was also attended by MC Commissioner Komal Mittal, assistant town planners (ATPs) and building inspectors.
• Addressing the meeting, Rintu said illegal construction was not acceptable at any cost. “Those carrying out illegal construction by ignoring building bylaws should know that the Municipal Corporation will not tolerate it at any cost,” he said.
• He also asked the officials to motivate people to get their building plans approved before beginning with any construction work. Praising several officials who took action against illegal building owners, the mayor said no employee’’s name should figure for allowing any illegal construction.
• He said the MC would make every effort to remove illegal constructions built in the past. Additional Commissioners Sandeep Rishi, MTP Narendra Sharma, ATPs Parminder Singh, Harkiran Kaur, Building Inspectors Paramjit, Angad Singh, Rajat Khanna and Randeep Kaur were among those present.

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