North India Statesman
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Lucknow, 30 September (HS). To make the cities of Uttar Pradesh clean, beautiful and of global standard, “155-hour non-stop mega-cleanliness campaign” is being run in all the urban bodies from 26th September to 2nd October. Urban Development Minister A.K. While giving instructions to all the civic level officials to make the cleanliness campaign successful, Sharma said that by identifying all the Garbage Vulnerable Points (GVP) and black spots, such places should be cleaned and converted into beautiful places. The places on the body where garbage falls should be cleaned and made beautiful. To ensure that such places do not turn into garbage sites again, children's play parks, open gyms, vending zones, seating areas for the elderly, etc. should be built at those places.
On the 5th day of the campaign, 1185 heritage places, 2478 religious places, 311 river ghats, 513 water bodies, 1605 intersections were made clean and beautiful through 17443 personnel. More than 25 thousand people participated in the public movement for cleanliness, as a result of which 33,807 kg of garbage was collected and disposed. Special attention was also given to the cleanliness and beauty of the Waste-to-Wonder parks. During this period, 1128 CTUs were identified in 836 waste-to-wander parks of the state bodies. At the same time, 28652 kg of garbage was also collected and disposed. In which 13158 people along with 10156 personnel participated. Besides, 1377 Waste-to-Art were also installed at these places.
On Monday, the fifth day of the ongoing “155-hour non-stop mega-cleanliness campaign” in the civic bodies, the Urban Development Minister praised the cleanliness and beautification works of historical sites, religious places, intersections and river ghats in the civic bodies. He said that the main roads and intersections are the mirror of the city. People coming from other districts and states assess the condition of the city only from the intersections and main roads. In this way, we have to make the main roads and intersections especially clean and beautiful. This will establish a sense of cleanliness in the nature and values of the people, due to which they will avoid throwing garbage anywhere. He said that in view of the upcoming festivals, we have to take special care of the cleanliness and beauty of the historical places, religious places and ghats of the cities.
Minister Shri Sharma said that God resides only in a clean environment and happiness and prosperity also increases. If we look at the rich countries of the world, special care is taken of cleanliness and hygiene there. The citizens there are very serious and responsible towards cleanliness. He called for celebrating the upcoming festivals Navratri, Dussehra, Diwali, Chhath Puja as 'clean festival, healthy festival' and directed all the civic workers to continuously maintain cleanliness. On his instructions, on the 5th day of the campaign, cleaning of heritage places, religious places and areas around the ghats was done in all the civic bodies. Employees were made aware about not using single use plastic and its alternatives. Toilets around religious and historical places were cleaned and freed from yellow spots.
The Minister has given instructions to repair the street lights so that the devotees do not face problems in commuting due to darkness during festivals. The supply of clean drinking water should not be hampered and proper disposal of the prasad and garbage offered by the devotees should also be ensured. He said that people should not throw prasad and garbage here and there and should keep dustbins around the places of worship. The cooperation of regional public representatives should also be taken and awareness should be created to celebrate a clean and healthy festival.
