Govt will provide adequate equipment to sweepers for sewerage chamber cleaning: Gehlot
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said the state government will provide adequate equipment and make requisite arrangements to ensure that no sweeper has to enter sewerage chambers to clean them.
Cleaning sewerage chambers without adequate protective gear is a problem in the entire country and many times, sweepers have lost their lives in the process, Gehlot said.
"It is a matter of concern and pain for all of us when a person dies while cleaning a sewer chamber," Gehlot said while addressing a programme on cleanliness.
"In Rajasthan, our government will provide equipment for sewerage chamber cleaning so that no one has to die. There will be no constraint of money for this purpose," he said.
He directed officials to make a work plan for this and implement it within a year.
The chief minister said Mahatma Gandhi had dreamt about a clean and pure India and always thought about the welfare of the person sitting in the last row.
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