Jaipur Municipal Corporation mayor Sunil Kothari launched a ward-wise cleanliness drive ahead of Diwali on Thursday, with civic teams clearing 78 tonnes of garbage and more than 35 tonnes of construction and demolition waste from Ward 112 on the first day.
The campaign, named Ward-wise Swachhata Utsav, began at 7am from Badi Chaupar, where Kothari administered a cleanliness pledge to sanitation workers and participated in sweeping activities. He later inspected sanitation arrangements in various wards.
The first-day operation removed a combined 113 tonnes of municipal garbage and C&D waste from the selected ward. The clearance of construction and demolition waste is part of the civic body’s effort to address different forms of waste generated in public spaces and residential areas before the Diwali period.
According to the municipal corporation’s plan, door-to-door waste collection will be carried out using 20 hoppers, supported by 200 sanitation workers, three JCB machines, eight tractors and other machinery. The equipment and workforce will be deployed in the selected ward as the campaign moves across Jaipur’s zones.
Kothari said the objective was not merely to sweep roads but to make public spaces completely organised and clean. The statement places the campaign beyond a single street-cleaning exercise and links it to the condition and management of civic spaces ahead of the festival period.
The drive will continue on a ward-wise basis across all zones until Diwali. Under the deployment plan, at least 50% of the sanitation workforce and available mechanical resources in each zone will be assigned to the selected ward during its cleaning operation.
The ward-based model concentrates personnel and machinery in one area at a time instead of distributing the available resources evenly across all wards. The civic body’s stated aim is to improve the effectiveness of the cleaning operation through this concentrated deployment.
The campaign also brings attention to the operational demands placed on municipal sanitation systems before major festivals, when public spaces and neighbourhoods require coordinated cleaning and waste collection. Its progress will depend on the planned movement of resources from one ward to the next and on the continuation of door-to-door collection during the campaign.
The Jaipur Municipal Corporation has not provided, in the supplied announcement, a ward-wise schedule for the remaining zones or a total target for waste removal before Diwali. The next stages will be carried out through the ward-wise deployment of sanitation workers, vehicles and mechanical equipment until the festival.
