 Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 27: Amid nationwide lockdown in wake of Corona Virus outbreak by adopting proper social distancing, Chander Mohan Gupta Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation reviewed the desilting work of nallahas.
He was accompanied by Suraj Parkash Padha Chairman of Swatch Bharat Standing Committee, Surinder Chowdhary Councillor of ward no: 29, Mohinder Kumar Bhagat Councillor of ward no: 61, Sudhir Bali (ACR) I/c Chief Transport Officer JMC and Sanjeev Kumar Sharma Transport Officer JMC conducted extensive tour of Jammu City and took stock of the ongoing disilting works of the various deep drains at Shiv Nagar, Shakti Nagar, Gole Pully Talab Tillo, Kalka Nagar (Udhyawalla) etc of ward no: 29, 33, 40, 60 & 67 respectively.
Mayor further informed that keeping in view the coming rainy season, Jammu Municipal Corporation has already started the disilting of all the major nallahas/deep drains before lockdown so that all the nallahas flowing in City can be disilted thoroughly and dirty water do not remain stagnate which becomes breeding place for mosquitoes which further spread many types of diseases and during rainy season water often overflows in the lanes and even enters in the Houses of low lying areas of Shakti Nagar, Talab Tillo, Krishna Nagar, Janipur, Nanak Nagar and causes lot of damages to the human lives and property every year.
Apart from this, Jammu Municipal Corporation has pressed into service its mechanized decontamination vehicles and special teams of workers, also hired vehicles from other departments like Agriculture / Horticulture, Fire & Emergency Services Department etc. for proper fumigation, spraying and sanitization in all the wards, Red Zones areas, Quarantine Centres, Hospitals and other places of public important on daily basis, installed about 20 decontamination and sanitization tunnels in various locations so that the aim of preventing the spread of deadly Corona Virus is achieved successfully and appeal to the General Public to co-operate with Jammu Municipal Corporation, maintain proper social distancing, remain indoors, do not throw garbage in the public roads, drains and do not spit on the public places, keep their surroundings neat and clean, follow the guidelines of administration being issued time to time so that chain of COVID – 19 epidemic can be broken. He also directed the transport section to deploy the labourers as well as JCB where ever required and remove the silt, garbage etc derived from drains on routine basis. |
