Chandigarh, September 6:- City Mayor Sh. Kuldeep Kumar said here today that a special squad of officers will be constituted to deal with day to day affairs related to Swachh Survekshan-2024 parameters on ground level.

While presiding over a review meeting, the Mayor asked the concerned officers to constitute a team of officers in which all the wings of MCC will look after daily affairs of the Survekshan on ground level. He said that the team will check all the violations related falling under the jurisdiction of MCC and defaulters will be challaned on the spot as per the norms. He further said that the team will also see problems and issues related to their respective wings and resolve the same at their own level.

The Mayor directed to organize monthly awareness camps in the villages, colonies and slums including all peripheral areas of city to create awareness among citizens regarding swachh survekshan and its parameters. He said that special cleanliness drives be carried out on regular basis to clean toilets besides providing drinking water facility in the colonies and villages.

The Mayor asked the concerned engineers to put up status of legacy waste mining project at Dadumajra dumping site and regular camps be organized at the Dadumajra village and colony to resolve their day to day problems and other issues.

He asked the officers for monitoring the maintenance of toilet blocks outsourced to contractors on weekly basis through mobile app instead of monthly monitoring. He said that contractors not performing up to the mark in maintaining the toilet blocks be pulled up and their contracts be cancelled. He said directed that awareness material such as boards, hoardings of Swachhata campaigns be displayed in the toilet blocks falling under the jurisdiction of MCC.

The Mayor said that citizens be involved in Swachh Survekshan 2024 through creating mass awareness campaigns on regular basis. He said that LED display screens be arranged in heavy populated areas including sector 15, 17, 19, 22 and 34 to display various components of SS-2024 and different parameters. He said that projection of MC projects and best practices be displayed among masses.

He said that intensive awareness campaign be started to use Swachhata App among citizens and SLA be monitored properly. He said that Resident Welfare Associations and Market Welfare Associations be involved in all campaigns as they are major role players and stakeholders for implementing the schemes related to Swachhata.

The Mayor said that segregation of waste at source level be monitored properly specifically in peripheral areas of the city. He said that city level Self Help Groups be engaged to create door to door awareness for various components i.e. ban on single use plastic items, segregation of waste at source level, home composting, recycling of waste materials etc.

He said that that social support groups be created for cleanliness in slums and proper survey be conducted at these areas besides creating whatsup group for day to day problems and issues faced by residents of slum areas.

For street vendor zones, the Mayor said that they should be zero litter and well organized including providing the facilities of toilet blocks and drinking water. He asked the concerned officers to introduce single pattern pre fabricated mobile stalls for the vendors so that they look uniform in the vending zones.

On Plastic Mukt Shahar, the Mayor said that violators be challaned during first time and FIR be lodged against the permanent defaulters. He directed the concerned sanitary inspectors to nab the supplies of single use plastic bags to the vendors in apni mandis, market places and other vending sites.