Janta curfew in Chennai: Civic staff turn out to keep streets clean – Times of India

CHENNAI: Even as Chennaites stayed indoors to observe the janata curfew, the civic body ensured that all its regular functions continued unimpaired.
Conservancy workers went about collecting and clearing garbage from houses and localities and sweeping streets as usual. They were the only people seen on the roads. Around 19,000 conservancy workers help in keeping the city clean.
Similarly, Greater Chennai Corporation’s bus route roads and interior roads division continued its work of relaying major roads and footpaths across the city. “It is a routine work and hence it wasn’t stopped,” a senior official said. Greater Chennai Corporation (GCC) had started work on relaying more than 170 bus route roads as well as more than 1,000 interior roads across the city in January.
Meanwhile, the civic body has also activated a disaster relief mechanism, similar to the way it functioned during the 2015 floods. Among the tasks is that every chief engineer and deputy commissioners become nodal officers for each zone and have to supervise proper disinfection.
Disinfectants are being sprayed using jet rodding machines procured from the Chennai Metrowater Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), apart from using hand-held sprayers. The disinfectant is a mixture of lysol, bleaching powder and water, sprayed extensively in bus terminuses and railway stations in particular.
The civic body also fed some migrant workers stranded at Chennai Central and ferried them to relief centres across the city.

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