According to its commitment of waste removal as early as possible, Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) removed wastes of sacrificial animals within evening of the Eid day ensuring a neat and clean atmosphere to the city dwellers this morning.
RCC officials said they were determined to ensure the safe removal of sacrificial animal waste within midnight everywhere in the city but the job has been done much before.
Chief Conservancy Office Sheikh Mamun said all the wastes were kept in selected places, including the secondary transfer stations, after collection from the slaughtering points from where those were transported to the central landfill by midnight.
He said requisite manpower, including conservancy labourers and workers and others concerned, were engaged to remove the waste.
Under special arrangement, hydraulic trucks and tractors, skid rollers connected with water and jet spray trailers and vans were used for removing the wastes side by side with cleaning the slaughtering spots in all 30 Wards of the city.
Bleaching powder and other disinfectants were sprayed in all the spots presenting a clean and bad-smell free dawn before the city dwellers.
The city corporation had fixed 210 places for slaughtering sacrificial animals in the Eid-ul-Azha but the city dwellers had done the job in many more places.
Highlighting the aspects of safe and timely removal and disposal of animal waste Sheikh Mamun said adequate steps were adopted for motivating the city dwellers in this regard.
City dwellers were urged to use only the selected places for the purposes in the greater interest of making the metropolis along with its air and water free from pollution and other contamination.
Mustafizur Rahman, Public Relation Officer of RCC, said the conservancy workers had started collecting and removing wastes from all the slaughtering points, including 210 selected ones, at 11 am.
They completed transportation of 100 percent waste to secondary transfer stations within 7pm. Within the night, the wastes were shifted to the waste dumping yard.
He also said leave of all 1,377 conservancy workers engaged in sacrificial waste removal works had been cancelled.
After removing the wastes, 1,500 kilograms of bleaching powder and 1,200 kilograms of lime were sprayed in all the slaughtering points to make those disinfected.
Rahman said 24 trucks and two water trucks were used in the conservancy works and all the activities were monitored round the clock from the control room.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha