Mayor inaugurates mechanical road vacuum sweeping machine

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 15

The mechanical road vacuum sweeping machine purchased under the Smart City Mission was inaugurated by Mayor Karamjit Singh Rintu in the presence of Municipal Corporation Commissioner Komal Mittal and Deputy Mayor Raman Bakshi at the zone number 8 office of the MC at Chheharta here on Thursday.

On the occasion, the Mayor said the sanitation system of the city was being upgraded and modernised so that the sanitation work could be done in a fast and proper way.

The Mayor said the modernisation of sanitation equipment would help in improving the ranking of the city in the upcoming cleanliness survey being conducted by the Union Government.

Komal Mittal, who is also CEO of the Smart City Mission, said the mechanical road vacuum sweeping machine purchased under the Smart City Mission had been handed over to the municipal corporation. It was bought for Rs 47.50 lakh and can clean 6 to 7 km of the road in an hour,” she added.

Earlier, the MC had hired a private firm to clean the roads with mechanical sweeping. The services of the firm were terminated in 2019 and the MC was sweeping the roads manually. Now the MC bought some mechanical machines to clean the roads mechanically.

On the occasion, the “wall of kindness” built by the sanitation department of the MC was also inaugurated by the Mayor outside the zone number 8 office. He appealed to the people that those who had extra clothes, food items or any other usable item, could leave it on this noble wall and needy people would collect them from here.

MC health officials Dr Sanjay Kanwar and Dr Yogesh Arora were also present on the occasion.