Railways should maintain month-to-month clean-up drives: commuters

Railway stations within the metropolis wore a cleaner look on Thursday as Southern Railway intensified the cleanliness drive by way of the Swachhata Hi Seva mission.

The Swachhata Hi Seva, initiated as a part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, has develop into an annual cleanliness programme of Southern Railway. 

A senior official of the Chennai division mentioned the annual cleanliness drive this yr was carried out in two phases for greater than a month from August 1 to September 16, throughout which the conservancy employees of the Railways had been concerned in taking on cleansing operations in 160 railway stations positioned within the division.

The commuters wished the railway officers to hold out the cleanliness drive each month, particularly on the tracks. Southern Railway  has lined up a number of different conservancy initiatives, together with planting of tree saplings, well being camps for cleanliness employees and railway employees, consciousness campaigns in railway colonies and mass cleansing at Central and Egmore railway stations this yr.

The railway official mentioned that cleansing drives had been held in railway stations together with Dr. MGR Chennai Central, Egmore, Velachery, Tambaram, Mambalam, Avadi and Tiruvallur. The 45-day Swachhata Hi Seva marketing campaign culminated on Gandhi Jayanti Day with a grand operate held on the Central station on Thursday the place senior railway officers, together with P. Mahesh, Additional General Manager of Southern Railway, and Chennai Divisional Railway Manager Shailendra Singh, participated.

The railway official mentioned throughout the 45-day cleanliness marketing campaign, greater than 450 tonnes of rubbish was eliminated and 750 kg of plastic and recyclable waste collected from the railway stations and places of work. S. Rajeshkumar, a commuter from Taramani complained that the bottom ground of the station was stuffed with chook droppings and animal droppings, inflicting a nauseating environment.  An identical scenario prevails in Velachery railway station additionally, he mentioned.