Corporation carries out cleaning drive at VOC Ground

January 23, 2017 09:26 am | Updated 09:26 am IST - COIMBATORE:

Corporation workers engaged in cleaning the waste generated at VOC Ground, the pro-jallikattu protest venue, in the city on Sunday.

Corporation workers engaged in cleaning the waste generated at VOC Ground, the pro-jallikattu protest venue, in the city on Sunday.

Coimbatore Corporation and Swachh Bharat ambassadors cleaned VOC Ground, the pro-jallikattu protest site, and its periphery on Sunday morning.

Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan, who went to the cleaning site, asked officers to place more toilets and bins to meet the needs.

City Health Officer K. Santhosh Kumar said the Commissioner had asked the officials to add four more toilets for women and two more for men and extra bins.

The 100 workers the Corporation had deployed for the cleaning drive on Sunday, collected huge quantity of empty water packets, paper and plastic plates, cardboard boxes and other waste. The collected waste was taken to Vellalore dump yard.

A public health officer said the Corporation used 28 vehicles - including two tonne and 0.5 tonne waste carriers, and several small vehicles.

Around 25 Swachh Bharat ambassadors and volunteers joined the workers in removing the waste.

Mr. Kumar said the Corporation would continue deploying workers in two shifts to carry out round-the-clock cleaning operation.

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