Keep streets filth free, students urge Alambagh vendors
LUCKNOW: With an aim to promote cleanliness in Alambagh, students of St Meera’s Day School, Avadh Collegiate and Dashmesh Public School distributed around 400 dustbins to shopkeepers and street vendors with a humble request to keep the streets filth free.
This programme was part of HT’s ‘My City, My Pride’ campaign and Shri Guru Singh Sabha Alambagh Gurudwara’s initiative for a clean city. The dustbins given to vendors were sponsored by Raj and Sanchit Agarwal, distributors of Action Shoes.
A short skit underlining the importance of cleanliness was also held at Alambagh crossing to sensitise people.
Charanjeet Singh Sawhney, MD of Jyoti Envirotech (company engaged in door to door garbage collection); Joginder Singh, head of Gurudwara Alambagh; Baljeet Singh Tony, head of Gurudwara Singar Nagar and Arvinder Singh of JJ Bakers along with others took out a march to increase awareness about clean surroundings.
Hundreds of students knocked at every shop to spread the mes- sage of clean surroundings.
Speaking on the occasion, Charanjeet Singh Sawhney of Jyoti Envirotech said he would make Alambagh the most clean area of the city and turn Lucknow into one of the cleanest cities in the country. Special drives to clean the Alambagh market would be carried out by the company every Wednesday.
He said the landfill site at Shivri would soon be operational and most of the 62 wards in the city would not see any sort of waste on the road.