Make Swacchta Abhiyan a success, urges CM Khattar
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Thursday urged the officers to make Swacchta Abhiyan a success through public participation and contribute in making Haryana clean and beautiful. In view of the winter season, he also asked to ensure arrangements for installing signs, signals and reflectors on roads.
The Chief Minister was presiding over a meeting with all Deputy Commissioners through video conferencing, here on Thursday. During the meeting, discussions were held on Swachhta Abhiyan-Urban, settlement scheme of outstanding bills, Ujjwala Yojana, renovation of Shivdhams (crematorium) and road safety.
While directing the concerned officers, the Chief Minister said that new initiatives and experiments would be taken to make Swacchta campaign a complete success. He asked to form a Swacchta committee at district level under the chairmanship of the concerned Deputy Commissioners with officers of Urban Local Bodies Department and some citizens of the city as its members. The members of the committee would inspect all roads for cleanliness. Apart from this, he also asked to form Swachhta Fund at the district level so as to complete small works by the committee at the earliest.
He also directed the concerned officers to ensure the arrangement of sign boards, signals and reflectors on the roads to prevent any loss of life and property due to fog in the winter season. He also asked to start making arrangements at the night shelters.
The Chief Minister said that all districts should gear up for cleanliness as a cleanliness contest would be held soon, in which the cleanest city would be awarded the first prize. He asked the officers to ensure participation of school children in the campaign so to generate cleanliness awareness among them.
He directed to ensure that bushes along roads are regularly trimmed and generate awareness among shopkeepers to completely stop using plastic bags.
He said that every month a cleanliness competition would be held, in schools and hospitals and the cleanest institution would be awarded.
He asked to widely publicise the settlement scheme of outstanding bills among the people so that maximum people could avail its benefits and join Mhara Goan, Jagmag Gaon scheme. He directed the officers to ensure speedy completion of all works under renovation of Shivdhams in the state.
Those present included Urban Local Bodies Minister, Mrs Kavita Jain, Minister of State for Cooperation, Mr. Manish Grover, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, Mr. Rajesh Khullar and other senior officers.
