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Clean city drive by AMC shortly Wednesday, August 29, 2001

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
AHMEDABAD: AMC authorities are readying to rid the city of the dirty puddles and stinking heaps of uncleared garbage.

In that endeavour one may well find the mayor, commissioner and the who's-who of the municipal corporation taking up a broom and kicking off a post-monsoon clean-up.

A declaration to this effect was made by Mayor Himmatsinh Patel at the monthly general board meeting on Tuesday. The announcement came as a rejoinder from Patel to an accusation of inactive pre-monsoon action plan leading to garbage heaps and diseases like cerebral malaria made by BJP corporator Anil Patel. The Congress is looking to clean up the city before Gandhi Jayanti on October 2.

Unlike previous years when the clean-up drive began from October 2, the Congress has decided to pre-empt this move, which many feel may have been mooted with an eye on forthcoming Sabarmati bye elections.

Sources at the AMC said that the drive is slated to begin from September 1under express supervision of the mayor, commissioner, deputy mayor, standing committee chairman, chairmen of health and solid waste committees and deputy municipal commissioners.

"We will be part of the clean-up drive for two hours every day. Final meet to decide on the starting point of this move, that will cover all the 43 wards in five municipal zones, will be convened on August 30," said a senior Congress leader.

On Monday the top brass of political and administrative wings of the civic body met at the West Zone office in Usmanpura where sources said that the Congmen had pressed for an early start to this month-long clean-up drive.

The drive will also mark imposition of stern fines on litterbugs. "The penalty will be administrative charges for the removal of garbage. It will be levied on shops or residents of housing societies who are found littering," said a Congman while asserting Surat rakes in Rs 2 crore annually as administrative charge imposed on litterbugs, Mumbai earns Rs 20 crore as penalty administrative charges while Ahmedabad collection is only Rs 10 lakh.

Help of NGOs to collect garbage from posh commercial localities like Ashram Road, C.G. Road and in Maninagar will also be a feature of the drive as also the expedition of setting up of a mobile court enabling levy of penalty on litterbugs.

Even smaller problems like leaking gutters and broken pavements will be sorted out with alacrity. During the clean-Ahmedabad move AMC looks to optimise usage of all garbage-collection vehicles thereby boosting refuse collection from the existing 1,200 tonnes per day.

News Source : The Times Of India News Service [ Lightning News ]

 

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