Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Urban Development and Energy Minister A.K. Sharma said that the holy month of Sawan is going on and national festivals, religious festivals are coming ahead, in view of this, all the bodies will pay special attention to better cleanliness, sanitation, street lighting, water supply, drainage and sanitation survey etc. in their areas.
All the bodies should organize cultural programs on National Festival, Har Ghar Tiranga Program, Shaheedon Ko Naman, Kakori Diwas from 09 to 15 August 2024 in Amrit Sarovars, parks, vending zones etc. and make the citizens aware about cleanliness and plastic free body.
For better management of the bodies, he instructed all the executive officers to stay in the headquarters area of their body and said that only after evaluating the work of the officers, they should be appointed in good bodies or given additional charge.
Urban Development Minister A.K. Sharma was doing a virtual review of the work of all the bodies through D Triple C Live Monitoring on Sunday. During this, he took stock of the situation by having a virtual dialogue with the officials of the bodies of Ballia, Bulandshahr, Shamli, Baghpat, Muzaffarnagar, Hathras, Chitrakoot, Golabazar, Golagokarnath, Bahraich, Barabanki, Hardoi, Unnao, Basti, Deoria, Ballia, Etawah, Shamli, Kannauj, Sitapur, Mirzapur, Barhalganj, Chandauli, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Kanpur Nagar, Lucknow etc. and gave important instructions for the management of the bodies.
A.K. Sharma directed that along with making better arrangements for cleanliness around the Kavad Yatra routes, religious places, Shivalayas and major temples, the roads and lanes of these areas should be clean and pothole free, there should be lighting on the roads, arrangement for pure drinking water. There should be cleanliness of community, public and pink toilets and arrangement for mobile toilets etc., dustbins should be kept so that the garbage does not spread here and there. Get the garbage lifted regularly and take it to the MRF center and focus on garbage management by doing source segregation. Make better disposal of the material coming out of places of worship or also try to make incense sticks, dhoop deep, havan samagri etc. from it.
The Urban Development Minister said that it is rainy season, all the bodies should make better arrangements for drainage, pumping stations, jet pumps and pumping sets should be in working condition, there should be no water logging, attention will be paid to the cleaning of drains. Spray anti-larvae medicine to prevent communicable diseases and mosquito and fly borne diseases, dengue, malaria, chikungunya etc. during rainy season. Efforts should also be made to clean flood affected areas and prevent diseases.
He said that all the bodies should make citizens aware about cleanliness, get cleanliness slogans written, run plastic liberation campaigns, also make people aware not to use plastic. Sewer and gutter water should not fill residential areas, sewer water should not mix with water supply, attention will also be paid to sewer cleaning.
Principal Secretary Urban Development Amrit Abhijat said that all the bodies should work with full dedication to increase civic amenities, any kind of laxity will not be tolerated in this. Take the help of modern technology to do the work in a better way, get the work monitored with drones. Make such arrangements that there are accident-free programs during festivals. The bodies have to make ODF Plus Plus. A total of 771 waste to vendor parks have been made in the bodies, cultural programs should be organized in these parks with the participation of local people during the national festival. Get a coffee table book of the works made. Keep the IEC team active for monitoring as well.
Secretary Urban Development Ajay Kumar Shukla, Director Urban Bodies Anuj Kumar Jha, Municipal Commissioners of Municipal Corporations, Executive Officers of Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats, Chief Engineer, General Manager were present in the meeting.
