Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC) mayor Sunil Kothari on Thursday launched a ward-wise cleanliness campaign ahead of Diwali, with sanitation teams clearing 78 tonnes of garbage and more than 35 tonnes of construction and demolition waste from Ward 112 on the first day.
The campaign, titled ‘Ward-wise Swachhata Utsav’, began at 7am from Badi Chaupar, where Kothari administered a cleanliness pledge to sanitation workers and participated in sweeping activities. The mayor later inspected sanitation arrangements in various wards, according to a report by the Times of India.
The first-day operation removed a combined total of more than 113 tonnes of municipal garbage and C&D waste from the selected ward. The clearance of construction and demolition debris is significant for street-level sanitation because such waste requires mechanical equipment and transport arrangements in addition to routine sweeping and door-to-door collection.
Under the campaign plan, door-to-door waste collection will be carried out using 20 hoppers, supported by 200 sanitation workers, three JCB machines, eight tractors and other machinery. The JMC said the campaign would continue on a ward-wise basis across all zones until Diwali.
The deployment model concentrates at least 50% of the sanitation workforce and available mechanical resources in each zone on the selected ward. This is intended to provide a focused cleaning operation rather than distribute personnel and equipment evenly across all wards during each campaign phase.
Kothari said the objective was not limited to sweeping roads but also included making public spaces organised and clean. The mayor’s inspections are part of the municipal corporation’s arrangements ahead of Diwali, when public areas and neighbourhood streets typically require coordinated sanitation services.
The campaign places ward-level operations at the centre of Jaipur’s pre-festival sanitation plan. Its progress will depend on the continued deployment of workers, hoppers, earthmoving equipment and tractors across the selected wards, as well as the completion of door-to-door collection during the period leading up to Diwali.
The JMC has not provided, in the report, a ward-by-ward schedule for the remaining zones or a final target for the total quantity of waste and C&D material to be cleared. The ward-wise drive is scheduled to continue across all zones until Diwali.
