Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 1: Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) in association with Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs and Director Urban Local Bodies Jammu organized one-day conference on “Technologies for Cleaning Sewers and Septic Tanks” with the objective of eliminating human entry into septic tanks/manholes, at Conference Hall of Udyog Bhawan, Rail Head Complex, Jammu.
Mayor Chander Mohan Gupta was chief guest on the occasion. Deputy Mayor Purnima Sharma, Chairman Public Health Sanitation Committee Baldev Singh Billawaria, Chairman Swachh Bharat Committee Suraj Parkash and Chairman Social Justice Jeet Angral were also present.
Commissioner JMC, Pankaj Magotra, in his welcome address, stressed upon the need to follow the guidelines and precautions for cleaning sewers and septic tanks and also emphasized to use modern technologies.
He also thanked Dr. S. Saktheeswaran (Technical Expert) nominated by the MOH&UA Govt. of India and Mrs. Anu Jasrotia Resource person (Head trainer of NSDC) National Safaikaramcharies Development Corporation to spare their valuable time for the conference.
Dr S Saktheeswaran (technical expert nominated by MOH&UA, Government of India) presented a lecture regarding legal aspects on operation and management of cleaning of sewers and septic tanks. He also highlighted the provisions of punishments and penalties under the provisions of Manual Scavenging Act 2013. He also made aware about the schemes available for procurement of equipment and machinery for cleaning sewers and septic tanks.
Resource person, Anu Jasrotia (head trainer of NSDC) demonstrated a presentation on technologies for cleaning sewers & septic tanks and best equipments which are being used for this purpose. The safety gears which are required to be used were also discussed in the conference.
Ashish Kumar Gupta Joint Commissioner (A), JMC, Suniana Sharma, Secretary, JMC, Dr Saleem Khan, Health Officer JMC along with other officers/officials of JMC, Varinder Kumar Manyal, Deputy Director Local Bodies Jammu, Sanjay Gupta, SE UEED and other officers/officials of Local Bodies and UEED were also present.
Rajinder Kakkar, Resident Welfare Association Trikuta Nagar, Subash Sharma, president, Banquet Hall Federation and representative from Hotels Association were also present.
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