Municipal Chairperson Bandari Anusha
Adilabad: Municipal Chairperson Bandari Anusha held a special meeting with sanitation jawans, sanitation drivers, sanitation workers, sanitation SI and in-charges of 49 wards of Adilabad town on Saturday at the municipality office. It is clear that it will be on drivers and jawans. Garbage should be collected from time to time in every colony and ordered to ensure that garbage does not accumulate anywhere. Sanitation SI, in-charge Narayana Reddy suggested that the responsibility of continuous monitoring of these works should be monitored. He said that 46 small garbage collection vehicles, 21 tractors, 3 JCBs, a ladder and other vehicles are available for sanitation management in the town for 49 wards. Although there are so many vehicles, occasionally some vehicles are under repair and it is advised to use the vehicles of the adjacent wards at such times. It has been made clear to the drivers and jawans that they should completely remove the garbage from the concerned colony through other available vehicles if necessary. He said that the incident of garbage piled up in front of the municipal office yesterday has been taken seriously. It is stated that action has already been taken against those responsible for this incident, a show cause notice has been issued to the Sanitation SI and the concerned jawan has been suspended and the tractor driver and small vehicle drivers have been dismissed from duty.Henceforth, the Sanitation SI and in-charges in each ward have been ordered to visit the field level and check the sanitation works continuously. He also said that he will conduct surprise inspections in various colonies. He warned that action will be taken against the staff who are negligent in their duties, along with suspension and removal from duty. Similarly, some drivers are only collecting garbage for one or two trips and parking their vehicles at 11 or 12 o’clock, even if there is garbage in the colony, they go to the dumping yard early and park their vehicles and end their duties, suggesting that such policies should be stopped from now on. He was ordered to be on duty from 5 am to 1 pm and make two, three or four trips in each colony as per the need to collect the garbage completely. It was clarified that the concerned driver and sanitation jawan should take full responsibility until the garbage collection is completed in a colony. If there are any repairs or technical problems in the vehicles, the engineering department officials have been directed to respond immediately and fix them. He said that some new vehicles will also be available in the coming days.
The Chairperson made it clear that even though Adilabad Municipality has more number of vehicles available as compared to other municipalities, there should not be any defects in sanitation management. It is advised that everyone should perform their duties responsibly with the aim of providing a clean environment to the people. If such incidents are repeated, they will be suspended and dismissed from their duties if necessary. People should also cooperate with the municipal sanitation staff where they should not get up in the morning to throw garbage and wait a little until the garbage vehicle arrives. In this program Sanitation SI Shankar, Narayana Reddy, Municipal Vice Chairman Rohit, Floor Leaders Enaganti Prakash, Izzagiri Sanjay, Jishan,
Bablu councillors, sanitation incharges, DEE Sandeep, sanitation jawans of various wards participated.
