For the next four months, personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) guarding the international airport here will clean Pattathammal Street near the airport at regular intervals to keep it tidy.
It has adopted this residential locality under the Swach Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) to lend its ‘shramdhan’ to maintain cleanliness in the area.
A beginning was made on Friday when a team led by Deputy Commandant Prabhat Ranjan Mishra removed garbage from the locality. Similar drive would be undertaken once in a fortnight by earmarking a specific time schedule for the work.
Besides, CISF men and officers would drive home the importance of keeping the locality tidy and maintaining proper hygienic conditions to the residents, say officials.
The initiative is being carried out on instructions from the CISF headquarters, a senior officer here said adding that the idea was to spread the message of cleanliness. A few months ago, the CISF adopted a corporation school on the wireless road where it carried out cleaning drive. After embarking on the initiative for four months at the school, the CISF has chosen a residential locality to carry out the same work, he said.
