Gearing up for the civic polls, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Solid Waste Management (SWM) department on Wednesday is set to kick off a special cleanliness drive across the city’s polling stations. 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.
The city, along with 28 other municipal corporations, is poised to go to polls on January 15 with voting process slated between 7.30 am to 5.30 pm.
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. 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.
While the drive
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.
An electorate of 1.03 crore voters are poised to vote for nearly 1700 candidates who 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.
Over 64,375 staffers have been deployed by the BMC to facilitate the electoral process.
