Jammu civic body to send 300 safai karamcharis to Kashmir
To lend full support to Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) in the massive clean-up operation, Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) is rushing in 300 of its safai karamcharis to the summer capital.
“We will be supporting SMC in cleaning of Srinagar. For this purpose, we are rushing 300 of our volunteer employees to Srinagar,” JMC commissioner Kiran Watal said.
Watal, who flagged off the buses carrying men and material to Srinagar from here today, said “over 160 such employees and cleaning material has been dispatched in the first day today”.
“We have sent brooms and other disinfectant materials,” he said. “We are going to help the people in Kashmir, whose houses, roads and lanes been laid with layers of mud and garbage deposited by floods,” said an employee.