Says stern action would be taken against those contractors & officials who would not follow instructions
Nursing homes and private hospitals will also be monitored
Raipur, May 31, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak has once again instructed all the sanitation contractors to dump garbage in the trenching ground based at Sarona. “The municipal would take stern action against those contractors, drivers of garbage collection vehicles and Zone Health Inspectors if the garbage of their areas would not be dumped in the specific site,” she said.
Nayak’s caution to the contractors and officials came during her visit to Sarona trenching ground where she directed the Health Officer Dr Amrit Chopra to also ensure implementation of solid waste management in the area before arrival of rains.
Nayak has also warned the nursing homes and private hospitals to avoid burning bio-disposable medical waste and throwing it in public places. She has instructed the municipal officials to take stern action against such nursing home who would not comply with the orders and to lodge an FIR against them. Nayak made it evident that the RMC would not allow the nursing homes to stake the health of common mass by posing negligent attitude. She asked the zonal health officials to constantly monitor the nursing homes of their locality by conducting surprise inspection and ensuring that they may not create health hazards by recklessly throwing medical waste in their ambience.
Notably, Nayak during her recent inspection of Amapara area was surprised at the sight of heaping medical waste near Kara Talab behind vegetable market. Later, she learnt from the local residents that entire area had become polluted and disease-prone owing to the medical waste.
She has also appealed to the people not to burn garbage at roadsides or in the litter bins. “We have strictly issued orders not to burn garbage in wards but to dump them in the trenching ground,” she said. Nayak confirmed that the RMC was flooded by the complaints against the sanitation contractors who burn garbage during night hours.
When contacted, the mayor-in-Council (MiC) member and president of Food, Public Health and Sanitation department Govind Mishra informed that at least 12-13 truck garbage should be dumped in the trenching ground everyday, but currently only 2-3 truck reach the dump site. Mishra doubted that the drivers of garbage collection vehicles and contractors were deliberately burning the garbage in the same locations from where they were being taken out. Notably, the trenching ground at Sarona is about 12 kilometers away from the city and the sanitation contractors avoid dumping garbage there to save fuel, but they claim full payment from the RMC for the purpose.
Training programme for plumbers today
Raipur, May 31, 2010
The RMC will organise a training programme on rainwater harvesting for all of its licensee plumbers at the office of Executive Engineer (Water Works department) on Nalghar premises at 4.30 pm on Tuesday. The training would be imparted by the municipal’s license holder groundwater expert Kundaleshwar Panigrahi.
Ex-Mayor’s apathy towards city sanitation exposed: Cong
Says RMC’s new Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak showed grit in launching dense cleaning campaign
Raipur, May 31, 2010
The PCC has blamed RMC’s former mayor Sunil Soni for failing to maintain sanitary standards in the capital. “The BJP was in power at the RMC for about ten years, but the city remained filthy. This shows the degree of seriousness the BJP mayors had adopted for the betterment of the capital,” said PCC spokesperson Iqbal Ahmed Rizvi and corporators Lakhwant Singh Gil, Pramod Dubey, Kavita Gwalani and Rekha Ramteke in a joint statement on Monday.
Appreciating the dense sanitation campaign launched by the municipal’s new Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak, Rizvi said she had shown grit and determination in fulfilling her promise to the people that she would turnaround the capital into a clean city. “The results of her attempts are visible. A huge amount of garbage is being taken out from nullahs and drains from different parts of the city everyday. Nayak is inspecting every area regularly and she is even unfazed by the soaring mercury,” he said adding that such initiatives were lacked by the BJP mayors.
“Nayak’s works are also commendable because she is committed to make Raipur as model capital in spite of no support from the state government in terms of funds and resources,” he said.
The PCC also took a dig at the opposition BJP at RMC for not coordinating with Nayak in her efforts to provide all the basic facilities to the Raipurians. He said the BJP should stop playing politics on development issues.
RMC willing to build pucca houses in Sweeper Colony
But project will start only after consent of all residents: Mayor
Raipur, May 31, 2010
Mayor Kiranmayi Nayak says that RMC was ready to construct pucca houses in Sweeper Colony at Baanstal if all the residents would agree for it. The project will be carried out under Basic Services for Urban Poor (BSUP) scheme that had been launched by the Union government’s massive city modernisation scheme through Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), she said. Nayak’s offer to the residents of Sweeper Colony came while she visited different wards under Zone-7 to inspect the municipal’s dense sanitation campaign before monsoon on Monday.
Nayak said it was heartening to see the people’s pathetic living condition in Sweeper Colony. She said the RMC was committed to make the capital slum-free and to provide better housing and civic facilities to the financial weaker section of the society. “If the local residents would agree then the municipal would shift them to some other place till the new pucca houses under BSUP get constructed for them in the same locality,” she added.
Earlier, Nayak inspected the cleaning of nullah in Babu Jagjeevan Ram ward and gave significant instructions to the officials pertaining to timeframe of sanitation drive. She further inspected cleaning of nullah near Madrasi Hotel in the ward, Chaterjee Mukkad nullah, MP Lodge Transport nullah at Ganeshram Nagar and nullah besides Hotel Mayura. Nayak said all the nullahs and drains should be cleaned thoroughly before rains.
Nayak also inspected Telghani Naka area where the RMC’s sanitation squad had engaged poclain to remove garbage from the nullah.
During her inspection, Nayak was accompanied by corporators Rani Satish Jain, Sunil Bandre, Ritesh Tripathi, Health officer Dr Amrit Chopra, Zone-7 Commissioner P Rajesh Naidu, Zone Health Officer Dr BK Mishra and Imam Baksh.
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