People’s Front seeks urgent action on city’s garbage crisis

Raising serious concerns over the deteriorating sanitation conditions in the holy city, People’s Youth Front, Punjab, has sought immediate intervention of Deputy Commissioner Dalvinderjit Singh, to resolve the city’s garbage crisis.

In his letter, copies of which have also been sent to Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann, Minister of Local Bodies and the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, Naresh Gill, president of the front, highlighted that heaps of uncollected garbage have piled up in every nook and corner of the city, creating unhygienic conditions and posing severe health and environmental hazards.

“In the absence of timely garbage lifting, many residents have begun burning waste piles, releasing toxic fumes that have worsened the city’s air quality and endangered public health,” he pointed out.

Calling it a matter of public safety and environmental concern, the front members stressed that the administration must act swiftly to streamline garbage collection, raise awareness against waste burning and implement strict enforcement to curb the practice.

The front appealed to the Deputy Commissioner to ensure a clean and sustainable Amritsar through prompt administrative measures.