Work on Buddha Nullah floating barriers starts

Ludhiana: The work to install floating barriers in Buddha Nullah was started on Thursday with the support of some active NGOs and organisations under CSR activities while the civic body gave its labour for the task.
Under this project floating garbage barriers are being installed near Kundanpuri bridge for arresting and channelising the garbage and continuous cleaning system will be installed that will work on electrical power to pick up the accumulated floating garbage and load it on to trolleys and tippers.
This project is being undertaken with active support of Col Jasjit Singh Gill, who had done similar thing at Sidhwan canal to curb garbage as part of Sidhwan canal cleaning project. He is a member of the special task force formed for the cleaning of Buddha Nullah.
Colonel Gill claimed that a major issue which was noticed in Buddha Nullah was of the floating garbage thrown by residents and garbage collectors into this water body, which besides choking the free flow of the water was adding to solid waste problem and almost choking the flow at certain bridges.
After many rounds of discussions, a plan emerged based on the thorough reconnaissance of the Buddha Nullah and after ground visits with the MC commissioner after which a place was selected to run the pilot project near the twin railway bridges upstream of Kundanpuri bridge.
Till the time stage two of this project is in position in around two to four months, the clearing of the accumulated floating garbage will be done with the help of loaders of the municipal corporation, sLudhiana.