15,000 sanitation workers deputed for Krishna Pushkaralu

15,000 sanitation workers deputed for Krishna Pushkaralu
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The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is spending more than Rs 3 crore on sanitation workers as well as to purchase cleaning material, including cleaning chemicals, soaps, detergents, baskets, dust bins, gloves among others. 

Vijayawada: Thousands of sanitation contract workers joined duties on Wednesday to maintain hygiene in and around bathing ghats, Pushkarnagars and important junctions of the city during the Krishna Pushkaralu.

The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation is spending more than Rs 3 crore on sanitation workers as well as to purchase cleaning material, including cleaning chemicals, soaps, detergents, baskets, dust bins, gloves among others.

The VMC has set up special store rooms near the ghats so that these cleaning materials can be supplied quickly as per the needs. The VMC has engaged 15,000 contract workers who came from different parts of the State for 18 days.

These workers are expected to work in three shifts 24x7 till August 26. Though Pushkaralu concludes on August 23, these workers will work three more days to restore the hygiene in the city after the visit of lakhs of pilgrims.

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