KOLKATA: Harish Mukherjee Road resident octogenarian Amiya Shankar Chakraborty received a pleasant surprise on Thursday morning when a group of Kolkata Municipal Corporation officials knocked on his door and asked his permission for a cleaning drive behind his building, which had become a garbage dump.
The civic team started the cleaning drive around 10am. A little later, mayor Firhad Hakim reached the spot to supervise the operation.
Chakraborty on Wednesday had called mayor Firhad Hakim during a 'talk-to-mayor' session and narrated the plight of his family due to the accumulated heap of waste in the neighbourhood. During his conversation with the mayor, Chakraborty informed that his elder brother Sankarjit had died of dengue last year and, despite best efforts, he could not get the civic body have the garbage cleaned up. The garbage dump had become a breeding site of mosquitoes.
When TOI met Chakraborty at his residence, he looked visibly happy. "I am elated that mayor Firhad Hakim paid heed to my request and sent a civic team to conduct a cleaning drive. I hope that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation will keep an eye on the site to prevent accumulation of waste and protect the neighbourhood from diseases," he said.
A senior official of the KMC solid waste management department, who went to the spot, said that a special team was formed to take care of the waste that had accumulated over decades. "We have not been able to remove all the waste from the site. However, we shall work regularly to make the area garbage-free," the official said.
Amiya Sankar's elder brother Ajaysankar, too, expressed satisfaction over the mayor's prompt action on their call for help. "We hope that this continues and the area is thoroughly cleaned to make our neighbourhood habitable. We need a regular service from the KMC conservancy department to ward off the dengue threat, which claimed the life of our elder brother," Ajaysankar said.
A civic official said that the area would be under their lens during monsoon as showers create water pockets which turn into mosquito breeding sites.
The civic team started the cleaning drive around 10am. A little later, mayor Firhad Hakim reached the spot to supervise the operation.
Chakraborty on Wednesday had called mayor Firhad Hakim during a 'talk-to-mayor' session and narrated the plight of his family due to the accumulated heap of waste in the neighbourhood. During his conversation with the mayor, Chakraborty informed that his elder brother Sankarjit had died of dengue last year and, despite best efforts, he could not get the civic body have the garbage cleaned up. The garbage dump had become a breeding site of mosquitoes.
When TOI met Chakraborty at his residence, he looked visibly happy. "I am elated that mayor Firhad Hakim paid heed to my request and sent a civic team to conduct a cleaning drive. I hope that the Kolkata Municipal Corporation will keep an eye on the site to prevent accumulation of waste and protect the neighbourhood from diseases," he said.
A senior official of the KMC solid waste management department, who went to the spot, said that a special team was formed to take care of the waste that had accumulated over decades. "We have not been able to remove all the waste from the site. However, we shall work regularly to make the area garbage-free," the official said.
Amiya Sankar's elder brother Ajaysankar, too, expressed satisfaction over the mayor's prompt action on their call for help. "We hope that this continues and the area is thoroughly cleaned to make our neighbourhood habitable. We need a regular service from the KMC conservancy department to ward off the dengue threat, which claimed the life of our elder brother," Ajaysankar said.
A civic official said that the area would be under their lens during monsoon as showers create water pockets which turn into mosquito breeding sites.
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