Ranchi: The Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has deployed over 1,200 sanitation workers, besides another 200 labourers engaged under the ‘Mukhyamantri Shramik Yojana’, to ensure cleanliness and order across all 72 Chhath ghats and their approach roads.With Kali Puja idol immersions taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, the civic body faces a tight two-day window to clean the water bodies before devotees gather to offer evening Arghya on Sunday.Additional municipal commissioner Sanjay Kumar said, “We are finalising all necessary arrangements to ensure that the Chhath festival is celebrated in a clean, safe, and well-organised environment. RMC officials and staff are at the sites, monitoring preparations and overseeing the execution of tasks.”The RMC has also built 63 artificial ghats at make-shift ponds across wards to allow devotees to perform rituals closer home and ease crowd at major ghats.The civic body has installed bamboo barricades at all ponds to restrict devotees to safe zones. Over 260 signages with ‘excessive depth’ warnings have been put up at vulnerable spots.The RMC is installing 1,508 additional lights across 83 city locations, backed by 88 generators to prevent blackouts during power cuts, as well as 501 temporary changing rooms at prominent ghats to boost safety and convenience.The teams are carrying out continuous sweeping, waste disposal, grass cutting, and bleaching powder application across the ghats and adjoining areas.kellykislaya@gmail.com
