Swachh survey: Noida sets deadlines for work

Noida: Ahead of Swachh Survekshan 2022, the Noida Authority has boosted its efforts to clean up the city.
At a review meeting with the public health department on Wednesday, Authority CEO Ritu Maheshwari set deadlines for the repair and maintenance of all community and public toilets, garbage vulnerable points and the iron or bamboo mesh placed on culverts of open drains for waste collection.
Officials were also asked to keep a strict vigil on bulk waste generators and on the sanitation of residential and industrial sectors, TOI has learnt.
While there are about 70 public and community toilets in need of repair, work on placing plastic mesh in place of iron or bamboo mesh on culverts is in the pipeline, officials said. Also, HCL Foundation has been asked to complete the statue of Mahatma Gandhi being made from plastic waste by February.
Vjay Rawal, senior manager of the Noida Authority, said, “We will be checking all public and community toilets that fall under work circles 1 to 10 for repair and maintenance works. We will check them for broken tiles, partitions, water and sewer pipes and electrical equipment damage. This will be done by January 31.”
“Once the repairs are done, the contractor concerned will be given the responsibility of their maintenance for a year,” he said, adding that the painting work on flyovers and night sweeping of markets would also be completed by February.
Apart from these, the public health department was also directed to beautify all the garbage vulnerable points set up by the Authority in different parts of the city. “There are 400 vilopit kudaghars in Noida. Their maintenance will be completed within this week,” said Rawal.
Also, directives were given to check for segregated waste carried out by a private agency-deployed vans, officials said. “We are also trying to fix a rational costing of the plastic mesh per square feet as it would not only bring down the cost from the earlier iron or bamboo mesh to 50%,” said Rawal.