Date :8/26/2021
Press Release on 26th August 2021JMC distributed 28 Tricycles in various wards
The Jammu Municipal Corporation has taken initiative for 100% door to door collection of garbage and for ensuring sanitation in those wards where autos/load carriers cannot ply for collection of garbage i.e. where there are narrow lanes and congested areas to ensure the goals of Solid Waste Management. As such, the JMC distributed 28 Tricycles in various wards of JMC under the Chairmanship of Chander Mohan Gupta, Mayor, JMC in presence of Adv. Purnima Sharma, Deputy Mayor, Narinder Singh, Chairman, Public Health & Sanitation, Yash Paul Sharma, Chairman, Swachh Bharat Mission, Kuldeep Singh, Chairman, Social Justice Committee, Dr. Sanjogita Soodan, Health Officer, Chief Transport Officers, Sanitation Officers, Asstt. Sanitation Officers of JMC.
The Mayor stated that tricycles are being introduced for collection of garbage with a view to maintain better sanitation and proper disposal of garbage from each household and transported at proper collection points to avoid littering of the same on roads.
Further, Commissioner, JMC appealed the general public to handover the waste only to designated vehicles and newly introduced tricycles which have been kept exclusively for this purpose. She appealed to the general public to come forward and join hands with Jammu Municipal Corporation so that the aim of Swachh Bharat can be achieved and assured the citizens of the city that no stone shall remain unturned in providing better sanitation facilities to the citizens of the City.