TEAM HERALD
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PANJIM: Goa police has improvised the Shramadana Campaign, which involves keeping their surroundings clean and green, by now laying major emphasis on clearing plastic waste and ensuring that all its police stations and their surroundings are garbage-free.
Director General of Police Kishan Kumar said the cleanliness drive will be conducted every Saturday where khaki-men will do the cleaning within a 200-metre radius of each police station as also within the complex.
“It will be done once a week,” Kumar told Herald.
SP headquarters Arvind Gawas said the drive is part of police training and that a slight modification was being made following directions from Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.
“We carry out shramadana every week… The previous campaign included cleaning the premises and now the police personnel will also have to clear garbage, including plastic waste within 200-meter radius of all police stations,” he said.
The officer said that the personnel themselves segregate the garbage, which is then collected by the Corporation of City of Panaji vans every Sunday. In other areas, the municipalities and after that the panchayats take the charge. “This practice will continue,” Gawas told Herald.
The directions were issued to all superintendents of police, Police Training School, deputy superintendents of police and stations in-charge, Wednesday.
Parrikar had directed that the “areas around all police stations as well as other police buildings should be kept free of plastic garbage.” The state is contemplating to all other government departments.
