The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s Solid Waste Management (SWM) department on Wednesday, January 14, has kick-started a special cleanliness drive at over 10,000 polling stations ahead of the civic body elections.
The two-day drive will entail deployment of sweepers, pink army teams, dustbins for segregated waste as well as toilets across the city’s 10,231 polling stations.
To ensure hygiene, senior officials have directed the assistant engineer of SWM department to install two separate dustbins at ward levels for wet and dry waste across all the polling locations.
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According to officials, over 4,000 toilets will be deployed across the city with each toilet pegged to be cleaned at regular intervals.
Furthermore, the civic body will also press the teams of pink army cleaners and sweepers at each station.
Across the polling stations which have been created within schools, the ward staffers have been tasked with engaging in school housekeeping to facilitate cleanliness.
Senior officials said that the drive will be implemented by the assistant engineer of SWM department at ward levels and will be overlooked by the zonal executive engineer.
Over 64,375 staffers have been deployed by the BMC to facilitate the electoral process.
As per data released by the Election Commission, a total of 1.03 crore voters are eligible to vote. Nearly 1700 candidates are in the fray for 227 electoral ward seats.
Of the total candidates, 55.16 lakh are male while 48.26 votes are women and 1,099 voters have been categorised as others.
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