Rajahmundry: Sanitation at fete to go hi-tech during Godavari Pushkaralu
Rajahmundry: Maintenance of sanitation will go hi-tech at the bathing ghats along the course of Godavari river as the authorities are planning to deploy as many as 16,000 sanitation workers with each tagged with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip to know the worker’s location and supervise the nature of work he or she is doing during the ensuing Godavari Pushkaralu.
Municipal commissioner and Godavari Pushkaralu special officer J. Murali at a meeting held with the municipal commissioners, sanitation supervisors and other officials here on Thursday said that they were going to divide the area into zones and sectors and a commissioner would be appointed for every 200 meter area to supervise maintenance of sanitation works.
He said that they were planning to paint a specific colour for each ghat and the sanitation workers allotted to that ghat would be given the sticker of the same colour to avoid confusion among the workers. About 300 experienced sanitation workers from Tamil Nadu would be hired to during the mega fete.
The special officer said that as no plastic material would be allowed, he advised the devotees to bring tumblers and glasses along with them in order to use them for performing rituals including Pinda Pradanam. He said that they had identified special places for performing Pinda Pradanam by the devotees at the ghats. He said that donors would be allowed to serve food items to the devotees only at parking places and added that signage boards would be set up to guide the devotees to reach ghats. Display boards would be set up at ghats giving information about the rush of devotees on the ghats performing rituals. Mr Murali said that as many as 150 BSNL GSM phones would be given to the officials on Pushkaralu duty to communicate.
NGOs would be entrusted with the task of identifying the missing people and restore them to their family members, he said and added that the railway authorities were asked to issue e-tickets to avoid huge rush of devotees at the ticket counters at the railway stations. He also said that no packaged drinking water sachets would be allowed in both the districts and pipelines would be laid along the bathing ghats to supply filtered water to the devotees.
