Raipur, April 13, 2010
Decomposing garbage, filth and dirt are still a common sight in the city. The malodour emanating from the rotting litters and blocked drains have made life unbearable for the residents of various wards. The people blame municipal authorities for mismanagement of sanitary arrangements.
“In the past ten years, we have seen two parties ruling the state but none had taken pain to make Raipur as beautiful and organised as other capitals across the country,” they said.
“Although the city needs a complete turnaround, but the government and the municipal should first ensure that Raipur become clean and green city,” they added.
Considering the people wrath against RMC and the government for failing to give a model look to the capital even in a decade, Central Chronicle visited various wards and interacted with local residents to learn how they feel when they are forced to live in unhygienic conditions with garbage and filth in the ambience.
Swami Atmanand ward
Raman Raj
We do not know whom to complain. For a couple of times, we have informed the local corporator about the garbage scattered in the locality and unclean drains, but she failed to redress our basic problems. Whenever we approach to the municipal office to complain about the mismanaged sanitary arrangements in our area, none of the officials or employees heeds us and they ask us to complain about the locality’s problems to our corporator.
Shiv Kumar
You will wonder that the only Sulabh toilet in our locality is in such a horrible condition that an outsider will run away just by looking it from inside. We do not know when the municipal’s sanitation staff cleaned this Sulabh last time. Foul odour comes from this toilet round the clock owing to which the people residing in its vicinity could not even stroll in front of their houses during evening hours during summer. Still, the local residents use this toilet as they do not have any other option.
Pt Sundarlal Sharma ward
Gopi Dhruv
The drains in our area are blocked because people usually throw polythene, rotten vegetables and other items in them. If we will ask our neighbours not to throw garbage in drains, they will start fighting with us. Hence, we urge from the RMC to launch proper sanitation drive in our locality and clean the drains completely. We would also request from out corporator to commence an awareness campaign regarding sanitation in the ward and inform people that throwing garbage in drains can be dangerous to their health and can cause serious diseases.
Shaheed Chudamani ward
Mahesh Kumar Agrawal
The drains in our area overflows during rainy season and get blocked during summer. We are living here for years but the RMC’s sanitation staff has never come in this area to clean the drains. We hope the new Mayor who has show commitment to make Raipur clean city would certainly visit our area and solve our problem.
Ganga Agrawal
Besides dirt and garbage, the municipal water from the public tap is also not suitable for drinking purpose because it not only stinks but also contains dirt along with ants, insects, etc. We are sure that the municipal’s water pipeline in the area has cracked somewhere owing to which drain water is mixing with it. We have complained about this to the municipal authorities, but no action has been taken so far. We have given up and now we do not trust any municipal staff. We have also stopped taking water from municipal tap and rather fetch clean water from the nearby automobile showroom that has its own bore well.
Pt Deendayal Upadhyay ward
Roopdhar Dhruv
Our former corporator had never visited to our locality to see the blocked drains or garbage. Let us see how the new corporator will perform and whether he would take initiative in implementing proper sanitary arrangements or not.
Om Prakash Dhruv
I do not think that the public representatives really work for the people after winning elections. Let the corporator belong to any party or may be an independent one, he only comes to use when he had some vested interest, but not to solve our basic problems like insanitation. Whenever we had complained about the sanitary problems of our area to the corporator, he would initially show excellent response and might even engage the sanitary staff to clean the drains and remove the garbage but in a day or two, everyone disappears – the corporator will suddenly become busy and would avoid meeting you while the cleaning staff would never come again to clean the pending areas.
Guru Govind Singh ward
Durga Shankar
After election, the corporator Chandra Behra hardly visited the site to take note of the situation. Residents are left with no choice but to live under stinky environment. Sulabh toilet at Jhanda Chowk has become useless because of non-availability of water to flush. While this toilet is closed at 9 pm most of the labourers in the locality return from their routine works after 11 pm. Seeing no other option they have to go open space near the railway tracks for excretion.
Vinod Sharma
While Raipur Municipal Corporation is charging Rs 50 every month to each of 6000 families for using Sulabh toilet, it failed to make arrangement of water to maintain its cleanliness. Severe water crisis under this scorching summer compounded the problem as people have to either bring water on their own to toilet or go to open space near the narrow gauge track for excretion.
Amush Tandi
When there is no water in the area how can it be possible to ensure cleanliness of Sulabh toilet? Adding to the woes of people are Garbage and civic wastes from Kali Nagar, Gandhi Nagar, Jagannath Nagar, New Shanti Nagar and other nearby areas that are being deliberately dumped near the Pandri school under connivance of the corporator.
Vinod Mandhani
Vehicle of Raipur Municipal Corporation comes to lift the garbage from the area albeit once or twice in a month, but it is the lack of civic sense of people residing in the area that made the problem unsolved. People in the area are habitual of throwing wastes on drains and roads and thus contributing to filthy and dirty environment.
Pradeep
The municipal corporation had awarded a contract sanitation contract to ‘Maika Group’. Accordingly the vehicle of this group used to come every day to lift the garbage. But since last month no vehicle is coming to lift the garbage.
Kiranmayi Nayak - Mayor
The RMC has framed new sanitary policy under which the cleanliness would be done ward-wise. Earlier, one or two groups had monopoly over RMC’s sanitary contract, but we have broken the trend and have ensured that the competent contractors must also get opportunity through our transparent tender process. With fresh contracts, the number of sanitary staff in each would range from 25 to 50 which is much more than previous system under which only 8-10 staff were responsible to maintain cleanliness in the entire ward. Besides sanitary staff in each ward, we are also planning to engage special gangs to clean the drains and nullahs before rainy season. However, the main roads of the cities would be cleaned by the municipal’s sanitary staffers that are about 1200. We have divided these employees into central and zonal gangs.
Renuka Bakshi (Corporator, Swami Atmanand ward)
know that people of my ward are facing difficulty owing to inadequate sanitary arrangements, but these problems would be tackled gradually. Presently, we do not have any separate cleaning staff to clean the drains and nullahs owing to which they start overflowing when it rains and get blocked in other seasons. Even, when the RMC engages the sanitary staff to clean any area, they do the sanitation works superficially and never clean the drains properly. As a consequence of this, the drains again block and start stinking.
Mrityunjay Dubey (Corporator, Pt Sundarlal Sharma ward)
For the past three-four months, sanitary works have come to a virtual halt in the city. However, the new Mayor has shown determination to make the city clean and green and in this regard, she is also visiting different areas everyday. Her new sanitation policy would also click as each ward would now get more number of cleaning workers. But, the RMC Commissioner is apathetic to the public problem. If he is authorised to release payments for contracting agencies, he should first visit each ward and see whether the works had been done as per norms or not. If the RMC administration will continue to ignore the sanitary problems of the city, the disease like diarrhoea, jaundice and cholera would soon spread in filthy areas.
Dr Amrit Chopra – Health Officer, RMC
According to our plans, the new contracting agencies would start sanitary works in their respective wards by this month end or from May 1, 2010. We are committed to provide proper sanitary arrangement in each ward and with new cleaning staff, a majority of the relevant problems would be solved.
Mayor tastes quality of meals served to school students
Raipur, April 13, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak on Tuesday inspected the Devpuri-based large kitchen of an NGO Pahal that serves mid-day meals to about 60,000 children studying in different government schools (183 primary and 83 middle schools) of the capital. She also tasted the quality of the meals that are being provided to the students.
She made it evident that the students should get nutritious and fresh food and any complaint pertaining to the quality of the meals would be taken seriously by the RMC and it would take stern action against the guilty supplier. The NGO’s secretary Sunil Balani and senior social worker Dinanath Sahu were also present during Nayak’s visit to the NGO’s kitchen.
Rehabilitation of shopkeepers
Raipur, April 13, 2010
The RMC will rehabilitate the shopkeepers of Telebandha who were affected by the road widening process under government’s Gaurav Path project in the same area near Karma Hospital. Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has asked Zone 4 Commissioner Vinod Devangan and Executive Engineer of Gaurav Path project NS Rathore to conduct physical verification of the vacant land near Karma Hospital and to commence the process of rehabilitation of about 55 shopkeepers promptly.
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