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अप्रैल, 2010 की पोस्ट दिखाई जा रही हैं

"Dirty kumars" to get Sanitation lesson

What type of citizen are you a Thu-Thu kumar(one who spits in public), a Su-Su kumar(one who urinates in public) or a Poly auntie (who throws plastic bags or garbage in public). Surprised! Even I found out what was this all about, but then later on came to know that this is the new campaign(clean the city) run in Delhi by the MCD(Municipal corporation Delhi) to drive civic sense in the capital on the eve of Commonwealth games that will be here very shortly, so the MCD officials are making sure that the city is most presentable to all when they arrive for Commonwealth games. Elaborating on the campaign, Delhi Mayor Kanwar Sain said, "We have prepared 600 signboards with messages related to cleanliness. These will be displayed to educate people." While the hoardings and signboards have already been put up at over 600 strategic locations, the second part of the campaign on television and radio will be launched within a month, the mayor said. The campaign will ask people not to

Mobile court, a step towards sanitation in public places

The Nirmal Gujarat cleanliness campaign initiated by the state government met with limited success due to the voluntary nature of public participation. Now, a health and sanitation mobile court will start functioning from this week to keep a tab on those found littering in public places. The first such mobile court in the state will be flagged off at Paldi by Justice K S Radhakrishnan, Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court, on June 4. A specially designed AMTS bus has been prepared for housing the mobile court, complete with a magistrate and other officials. It will have a prisoner van and a police vehicle in tow. The prisoner van will be used to house persons who fail to pay the fines. The entire AMC limits will come under the jurisdiction of this court. A provision for a mobile court was announced in the civic budget, but the idea could not be implemented for some reason or the other. But now that the appointment of a magistrate has been cleared, the launch is less than a week away