Kanpur citizens honour sanitary workers, offer tea and snacks

TNN | Updated: Apr 4, 2020, 12:43 IST

A local resident offering tea to a team of sanitrary workers

KANPUR: People are not only honouring the sanitary workers for their work but are also offering them tea and snacks.
In ward 55, Bhojpuri Samaj welcomed the sanitiary workers and garlanded the squad of sanitary workers led by sanitary inspector Dayanand and others and also offered them tea and snacks.
Similarly, residents of ward 105 Munshi Purwa garlanded sanitary supervisor Brijesh Kumar and his team.
Municipal commissioner Akshay Tripathi greeted the honoured sanitary workers and said that they have a big responsibility to keep the city clean. He said that the Kanpur Municipal corporation selects the best cleaned garbage dump house every day and rewards its cleaning team.
The KMC officials had selected six well cleaned dump houses in six zones of the city. Jakhai Baba Tiwaripur garbage dump house in zone -2 was adjudged as best cleaned on Friday. Sanitary inspector Surendra Singh and Sanitary Nayak Ram Kumar were felicitated.
Meanwhile, Raghav Mahila swayam Sahayata group of Rajeev Nagar in Yashoda Nagar prepared 5,000 masks and 200 pieces of PPE kits.
Meanwhile KMC team, on Friday, fed stray animals at 45 places of the city. And around 68 people were benefitted by Tele-medicine scheme. The control room of KMC received total 1,222 complaints on Friday and as many as 1138 complaints had been disposed off, said authorities.