With Chhath Puja celebrations now over, over 60 ghats throughout Gurugram which had been all decked up for the competition are all set to endure a cleansing drive, the Municipal Company of Gurugram (MCG) introduced on Tuesday.
Of all the town’s ghats, the organisation of Chhath at 20 falls beneath the jurisdiction of MCG. The remainder are managed by the Purvanchal Chhath Puja Samiti.
The cleansing will now fall to the designated Chhath organisation committee of the realm. In a notification, the company listed the areas the place the cleansing will happen together with the names of the contact individuals.
Organising committees at main ghats, together with Sheetla Mata Mandir, Shakti Park, Basai Talab and Rajendra Park, stated that, whereas the competition was celebrated with nice enthusiasm throughout the town, the remaining waste can be cleared within the subsequent one to 2 days.
Nevertheless, residents and organising committees have beforehand alleged that the MCG had failed to make sure the maintenance of ghats for Chhath Puja within the metropolis , leaving them to depend upon different teams or organisations to have a good time the four-day competition. And now with the cleansing too they count on the identical.
Saying that the main focus of the competition isn’t just devotion but in addition selling consciousness about cleanliness, Rajesh Patel, one of many organisers at Rajendra Park, “The MCG didn’t even present water for our ghat’s sarovar throughout the competition. At this price, we don’t count on a lot assist from their facet in cleansing the ghats both. They haven’t even contacted us but.”
At Shakti Park, over 25,000 devotees got here to carry out the Puja. Dr J.P. Kushwaha, director of the Teenager Sewa Committee and Chhath Puja Committee, admitted that the ghats had been considerably unclean.”Final yr, we did obtain some help from the civic physique, however this time there was no help. We are going to start the cleansing course of as quickly as potential and launch the water to close by areas to nourish timber and plantations,” he stated.
Over at Basai Talab, Vedanand (goes by single title), one of many organisers, shared, “In the course of the Puja, plenty of flowers, bamboo sticks and different supplies are used and supplied to Solar God, and these are sometimes left behind within the sarovar. All this must be cleared to revive the realm.”
In the meantime, the organising committee at Vatika Society in Sector 82 stated that their ghat is listed beneath each the MCG and the Municipal Company of Manesar (MCM). “Once we reached out to each civic our bodies, we had been advised that our ghat doesn’t fall beneath their jurisdiction. So, now we have obtained no help from both. We are going to attempt to launch the water into close by gardens or parks, which is able to no less than profit the realm and can clear the realm by ourselves,” stated Ajay Kumar Singh, resident of Sector 82.
When contacted, Ravinder Yadav, further commissioner of the MCG, stated, “All obligatory help can be offered, and the MCG will examine the websites to make sure correct cleansing.”
In the meantime, senior sanitation inspector, Sandeep (goes by single title) didn’t reply to our crew’s calls or messages.
