Come June, walk on spic ’n’ span roads

Come June, walk on spic ’n’ span roads
The Times of India

Bangalore: Even as the city snores gently, a few hundred people across different areas would be sweating it out, sweeping and combing the streets clean. For, the health department of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) is planning to introduce a slew of ‘clean’ measures including night sweeping, mechanised sweeping, among others.

The ambitious Rs-60 crore project is likely to take off in June this year. On Thursday, deputy commissioner (health) Manu Baligar apparently received 91 offers for health tenders, this work would be distributed across 297 health wards of the 100 wards of the city.

For the purpose of ensuring that the work reaches nook and corner of any ward, each of them have been divided into mini health wards.

The new scheme would have such innovations as compactors (machines which compact garbage), mechanised sweeping, improved door-to-door collection, hydraulic machines for ensuring totality.

Night sweeping by pourakarmikas is being proposed in the wake of dust, garbage — wet and dry — increasing thanks to large scale commercialisation, burgeoning of restaurants, et al.