District Monitoring Officer and Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department, Harmander Singh has asked officials to create awareness among traders and the public to use cloth and not plastic bags.
“Create awareness in shopping complexes, markets, and other places of commercial activity so that the use of plastic bags is stopped and traders and consumers instead use cloth bags,” said a district administration release quoting his address to officials from all departments at a review meeting held here on Saturday.
He asked the officials concerned to ensure early completion of the second tier of the Gandhipuram flyover project, the Ukkadam flyover, and Pollachi by-pass road so that the facilities are throw open to the public at the earliest. He also asked the officials to speed up steps to implement the western by-pass road project.
The release said that Mr. Singh directed officials in the Rural Development Department to inspect villages to ensure availability of basic amenities. While visiting the villages, the officials should listen to people’s grievances and ensure timely redress.
The block development officers concerned should ensure that faulty street lights were repaired within 48 hours of being brought to their attention.
Likewise, he also asked officials to work with villagers and farmers to dredge tanks and channels to ensure that they were ready to hold and convey water ahead of the North-East Monsoon season.
To the Public Health Department officials, he said that they should maintain vigil so that there was no spread of contagious diseases from Kerala, which was affected by floods in August. Village health nurses or other field staff who came across persons with symptoms of contagious diseases should immediately report the incident to their bosses or doctors of Coimbatore Medical College Hospital.
Senior officials from the district administration, Coimbatore Corporation and heads of various government departments participated in the review meeting.
