In a bid to maintain the beauty of the town, Dhanbad Municipal Corporation (DMC) is on a special cleanliness drive for all the statues and busts of eminent personalities situated at prime locations of Dhanbad.

The statues installed at Randhir Verma Chowk, City Centre Chowk, JP Chowk, Birsa Munda Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Rangatand Chowk, Gold Building Chowk, Hirapur Hatia Chowk and other chowks are cleant thrice in a week using the dust sweeping machines.

Talking to The Telegraph Online on Monday, sanitary inspector of Dhanbad circle, DMC, Arjun Ram said, “Though we are cleaning the chowks in general as part of our cleanliness activity, the special cleaning of the statues and busts of the eminent personalities was launched last week, following which the statues are washed with dust sweeping machines.”

Elaborating on the issue, director of Pay and Clean Service, Huban Mallik, which operates five dust sweeping machines on behalf of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation said, “Besides sweeping the roads we have started to clean the statues since last week as an additional job.”

“The pavements surrounding the statues on the chowks are also being cleant in addition. The small gardens enveloping the chowks are also being watered regularly through our machines,” said Mallik and added that their machines are quite efficient in such kind of cleaning work.

“The mechanized work is time and energy saving as the work which can be carried out manually in several hours can be done in minutes through our machines,” said Mallik and added that they are also carrying out cleaning of all concrete recliners lying around the major roads of Dhanbad.

Notably, the operation of five mechanized dust sweeper purchased during the last year which was lying suspended during the lockdown period has been resumed during the last week of October this year. Besides the road sweeping work, the additional work of statue cleaning has been given to the agency Pay and Clean since last week.