Municipal Corporation intensifies efforts to get good ranking in survey

Tribune News Service

Yamunanagar, August 24

The Municipal Corporation, Yamunanagar-Jagadhri (MCYJ), is making efforts to get a good ranking in Swachh Survekshan-2024.

Officials of the MCYJ are inspecting sanitation in all 22 wards besides asking people not to throw garbage on empty plots or in open spaces.

The MCYJ authorities have also asked the agency hired to collect door-to-door garbage to do so every day.

Besides, a drive was started today to clean the roads of the twin cities.

Road clean-UP IN Y’NAGAR, JAGADHRI

• Officials inspect sanitation in all Yamunanagar-Jagadhri wards
• Drive started to clean roads of twin cities
• People told not to throw garbage on vacant plots or in open spaces
• They have also been told to segregate dry and wet waste

Dr Vijay Pal Yadav, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, claimed there was no negligence is carrying out cleanliness in the MC area.

“We are making every possible effort to get a good position in Swachh Survekshan-2024. To attain this target, we have started a 100-day cleanliness programme in the twin cities of Yamunanagar and Jagadhri and other areas falling under MCYJ jurisdiction, besides taking other steps,” said Yadav.

Municipal Commissioner Ayush Sinha is monitoring the campaign.

Yadav said under Swachhta Abhiyan, the MCYJ teams were cleaning places where garbage had accumulated.

He said the cleanliness of roads had been started and the road leading to Chhachhrauli from Agrasain Chowk, Jagadhri, was cleaned, today.

“After the collection of garbage, it was lifted with the help of earth-removing machines,” he said.

Chief Sanitary Inspectors (CSI) Sunil Dutt and Harjeet Singh were taking stock of the cleanliness work in their respective areas.

CSI Harjeet Singh said, “We are making people aware of the importance of cleanliness. We have warned people that throwing garbage in the open would invite action by the MCYJ authorities.”

He said they were monitoring whether vehicles of the hired agency were going to all areas for door-to-door garbage collection.

CSI Sunil Dutt, along with sanitary inspector Sushil Kumar, while inspecting wards, exhorted the people to keep separate dustbins for dry and wet garbage.