 Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 15: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) organized a day long workshop on prevention of hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks which was sponsored by NSKFDC under the ages of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in association with Furniture and Flitting Skill Council.
STIC Infotech acted as facilitator organization for conducting the workshop wherein Mayor, Chander Mohan Gupta, Commissioner, JMC, Avny Lavasa, Joint Commissioner (A), Pankaj Gupta, Secretary, Atul Kumar and Sanitation Officers/Sanitary Inspector participated. During the course, Adarsh Puri and Megha from STIC Infotech imparted the training to the sanitation staff.
The workshop was based on Manual Scavening and hazardous cleaning, legal provisions for the welfare of manual scavengers, punishment as per MS Act, 2013. The trainers emphasized on wearing protective gears viz. gloves, shoes, jacket, helmets etc. to avoid any kind of infection. Mayor, JMC stated on the occasion that JMC provides protective gears to the sanitation staff for their proper safety and well being and further added that such kind of workshop shall be organized in future, as this kind of workshop are more beneficial for sanitation staff.
Commissioner, JMC further directed the Sanitation Officers/Sanitary Inspectors to pay attention towards wearing of protective gears by the sanitation staff and they can freely approach the authorities for anything which they require in undertaking their sanitation duties. |
