Coimbatore: City Corporation has launched a mass cleaning drive to eliminate the many wastes produced during the celebration of the Puja Ayudha last week.
Replacing workers began to clear the road on Thursday after Ti highlighted the problem on Wednesday.
All available resources have been deployed to remove garbage carelessly on the streets.
The waste handling facility in Ukkadam and Peellamedu was operated throughout the night intervention Thursday and Friday to shift the waste collected to the VellaLore waste disposal page.
“We received instructions from the office of the Commissioner to clear the waste on Friday night.
Even though we cannot clean it completely, the streets are much cleaner now,” said a health official of the South Zone.
Usually, festivals such as Ayudha Puja and Pongal leave a large number of garbage on the streets.
The Ayudha Puja festival recently produced about three times the 850 tons of waste produced on ordinary days.
“The only way to reduce the time involved in the collection of waste after the festival by increasing the gathering of door-to-door waste.
But residents do not work together.
We have suggested round night to prevent garbage disposal on the streets and collect fines to people People, but do not continue because they will need more workers, “said a North Zone Health Officer.
Devendran, a resident of Urumandampalayam, said that most of the stretch in Ward 43 had been cleaned.
“The Civic body must apply the collection of waste from the door to the door strictly and punish those who throw garbage on the road,” he said.