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Over the past decade, the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation has enactment successful spot a strategy to swiftly cleanable up the large roads successful the superior metropolis aft Attukal Pongala.
The communicative was not overmuch antithetic connected Tuesday, aft this year’s Pongala festival. Around 3,000 sanitation workers were swiftly deployed connected the roads to region the discarded materials portion abstracted squads were utilized to region the bricks to beryllium utilized for the Corporation’s lodging projects.
Delayed precocious into evening
Mayor V.V. Rajesh inaugurated the civic body’s cleanup drive. General Education Minister V. Sivankutty besides oversaw the cleaning activities successful assorted locations successful the city. Although the cleanup thrust started aboriginal successful the afternoon, discarded was not removed from immoderate parts including the bypass country adjacent Chackai adjacent by precocious evening, dissimilar the erstwhile years. The main thoroughfare from Secretariat to East Fort was washed down connected Tuesday night. Although the Corporation had strictly enforced greenish protocol, insubstantial cups and plates were seen strewn astir astatine slightest successful immoderate areas.
From opposing to adopting lodging scheme
Regarding the Corporation’s plans to reuse the bricks utilized for Pongala for operation of houses for beneficiaries nether assorted schemes, V.K.Prasanth, MLA, said that the program was archetypal implemented erstwhile helium held the Mayor post. It is heartening that those who person opposed it backmost past are implementing the aforesaid thought erstwhile they got powerfulness successful the Corporation, helium said successful a Facebook post. The CPI(M)’s online handles pointed retired that erstwhile the LDF-led medication had announced akin plans successful the erstwhile years, radical associated with the BJP had led a mendacious run against it, urging devotees to interruption the utilized bricks.
Illegal parking
Mr. Rajesh initiated a thrust against amerciable parking interest postulation connected Pongala day. Based connected a extremity off, helium carried retired an inspection astatine the SMV School grounds, wherever the PTA president and a PTA enforcement subordinate were allegedly collecting precocious parking fees. The Corporation filed a ailment against them with the Thampanoor Police.
