UDD of UP launches sanitation and monitoring drive to fight COVID-19

LUCKNOW: The Urban Development Department (UDD) of the Government of Uttar Pradesh has started an initiative to sanitise the roads and streets of the cities, including the main institutions, markets, hospitals in 17 municipal corporations and 48 major municipalities of the state. According to an official from the Government of Uttar Pradesh, as of May 3, sanitation work was done in all 12,016 wards of the state’s local bodies.

The UDD pressed several vehicles into service to spray areas in each municipal body with disinfectant 1 per cent sodium hypochlorite solution as a way to deal with surging coronavirus infections in the state. The department has been carrying out cleanliness campaigns in all revenue villages of 75 districts in the state. Official said that under this campaign, cleaning, sanitisation and fogging were carried out at a rapid pace. Moreover, special arrangements have been made to lift bio-medical waste from areas where citizens in large number are under home isolation.

UDD also deployed a special team to monitor cleanliness at crematoriums and burial grounds. The official added that around 60,569 surveillance committees have been set up in 58,194 gram panchayats to provide relief and timely medical facilities to villagers against the deadly second wave of coronavirus. People in these committees are to make door-to-door visits and check body temperatures, record oxygen level and check for other symptoms in people.