TRICHY: Trichy corporation has procured nine specialised vehicles for cleaning roads, drains and to remove line blocks on underground drainage sewers. The vehicles were commissioned by municipal administration minister K N Nehru at the main office of the corporation recently.
Officials said that since more parts of the city are being covered under the UGD network in a phased manner, the need for jet-rodder vehicles will increase to remove the clogs in sewers caused because of dumping solid waste.
Considering the surge in UGD connection for domestic and commercial properties, the civic body has procured five vehicles with mini jet-rodder machines on board, each with a 3,000-litre storage capacity, at a total cost of 1.7 crore using the 15th central finance. The vehicles can be taken to narrow roads where jet-rodder trucks cannot approach.
Similarly, the corporation has bought one mini-road sweeper and four open drain desilting vehicles at 1.9 crore, using the special funds allocated for improving the ambient air quality level of the city. Officials said that the vehicles can clean narrow roads and open drains, helping the workers swiftly remove the solid waste. The civic body already has two automated road sweepers to clean bus-plying roads.
Earlier, Nehru inaugurated sanitary complexes constructed at at Uyyakondan Thirumalai, Kora street, Bharathi Nagar and Gandhipuram at a cost of 1.2 crore. Health officials said that incinerators were facilitated in all the sanitary complexes for the safe disposal of diapers and sanitary napkins.
