The city Corporation entrusted 1,000 of its sanitation workers with the task of clean-up operations as part of Attukal Pongala festival.
In addition, 1,784 others have been appointed on a daily- wage basis across 14 health circles.
The local body will make use of 20 of its own trucks and 35 rented trucks for transport of waste. Arrangements have been made for the distribution of drinking water at all areas where Pongala is offered. To take care of emergency situations, the Corporation’s ambulances will be kept ready.
A control room has been opened in the city, which will function on all days of the festival. Health supervisors, health inspectors, and junior health inspectors will coordinate the activities in this control room.
The services of public health nurses will be available at the control room and in the ambulances.
A special health squad has been appointed to ensure clean surroundings in the festival area and to check the quality of food served in restaurants. Route plans have been prepared by the health inspector of respective wards for the removal of waste after Pongala. Cooperation of residents associations and temple authorities have been requested for this purpose.
Spraying and fogging in the festival area is being carried out to control mosquitoes. The Corporation, in association with the Suchitwa Mission, the District administration, the Food Safety Department, and the temple administration will implement a green protocol for the festival this year. Devotees have been requested to bring a steel plate and tumbler, to reduce the use of disposable plastic plates and cups.
The voluntary organisations, which carry out distribution of food and water have been asked to avoid the use of disposable plates and cups. Around 10,000 steel tumblers and 3,000 plates have been collected from city residents as part of a campaign, to be distributed to those devotees who arrive without their own plates and tumblers.
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