Hoshiarpur - 75th Republic Day was celebrated with enthusiasm at Municipal Corporation Office Hoshiarpur. Meanwhile, Mayor Surinder Kumar performed the ceremony of hoisting the national flag. Municipal Corporation Commissioner Jyoti Bala Mattu, Senior Deputy Mayor Praveen Saini, Deputy Mayor Ranjit Chaudhary, Assistant Commissioner Sandeep Tiwari, Chairman Finance and Contracts Committee Balwinder Kumar, various officials of the Municipal Corporation, employees and union presidents and officials were present in this special event. Apart from this, the councilors of different wards were specially present.
Mayor Surinder Kumar, while giving a message on behalf of the city residents, congratulated everyone on the Republic Day and remembered the sacrifices of many martyrs who laid down their lives for the country. He said that Babasaheb Dr. BR Ambedkar, the creator of Swaidhan, worked tirelessly day and night to give a written Swaidhan to independent India.
The mayor specially appealed to the city residents and said that they should cooperate with the municipal corporation in keeping the city clean. He asked the city dwellers to separate the wet and dry waste from their houses and give it to the sanitation workers. He said that 100 percent sewage and water lines are being laid within the city and sewage water pipes are being laid in the outskirts of the city soon under the Amrut scheme. He said that the Hoshiarpur Municipal Corporation has constructed pink toilets outside the bus stand and government hospital for the convenience of women. In order to provide 100 percent pure water to the city residents, water chlorination is being done in tubewells daily by continuous purchase of sodium hypochlorite medicine, two small jetting machines worth Rs.10 lakh have been purchased for immediate removal of sewage blockage and Rs.15 lakh More jetting machines are being purchased for Rs.
200 new hand rakes have been purchased for immediate garbage lifting within the city. Apart from this, 8 seater two mobile toilet vans worth 9 lakh rupees have been purchased for various religious places and Himachal Pradesh pilgrims going from the city. Resolutions worth Rs 493 lakh have been passed for various wards of the city to speed up the development works. Two new water tankers have been purchased by the Municipal Corporation, the cost of which is 7 lakh rupees, to deliver water immediately to those houses and villages where there is a problem of water. Medicine worth Rs 10 lakh has been purchased to protect the city residents from dengue malaria, with which ward wise fogging has been conducted. 150 sanitation workers and 30 sewermen have been recruited to carry out the cleaning work and clean the city, who have been deployed for cleaning the mohallas and streets. The maintenance of the crematorium has been entrusted to the society till 31st December 2027 to provide adequate facilities to the general public. To provide clean public toilets to the common people, the task of running them has been given to a company till the year 2026. Mayor Surinder Kumar said that where there is no sewage, an expenditure of 168.82 lakh rupees has been sanctioned for laying sewage lines. An agreement has been entered into with the Animal Husbandry Department for the prevention and sterilization of stray dogs. Dogs will be sterilized in the animal husbandry dispensary, which will gradually get rid of stray dogs. In view of the safety of women, 100 CCTV cameras are being installed at different places in the city, on which 464 lakh rupees are being spent.