Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation Sh. Chander Mohan Gupta today on 28/05/2020 conducted tour of Municipal Transport workshop situated on Prem Nagar road near Jogi gate Jammu alongwith Sh Gulam Rasool Executive Engineer of Division-I, Sardar Harvinder Singh AEE (Mech), Sardar Dharamveer Singh AE (Mech) of Jammu Municipal Corporation and took stock of the various departmental activities being performed there . Mayor went round the whole complex and observed that the said workshop needs proper face lifting for its better and effective functioning. He directed the concerned Executive Engineer (civil) accompanied with him to renovate the whole complex properly , install new floor tiles, repair the broken ones if possible, get the rooms, boundary walls & main gate properly white washed , repair the bathrooms which is in dilapidated condition alongwith other development works required in order to make this workshop a modern & good looking. Mayor was apprised by the concerned mechanical engineers that a new sanitization & decontamination machine has been fabricated by the team at this workshop especially for fumigation & sanitization at Jammu Airport as well as Jammu Railway station keeping in view the arrival of large number of passengers from other parts of India at these stations on daily basis due to cornavirus.
Mayor also checked the new tyre puncture unit at the workshop which has been made fully functional by the sincere efforts of mechanical engineers of Jammu Municipal Corporation. He told that after the installation of this particular tyres puncture unit, an amount of Rs five lacs per annum of the department as well as precious time of the dedicated Municipal Drivers will be saved who earlier faces lot of hardships whenever tyres of their vehicles especially of garbage lifting get punctured on the roadside during duty hours. Now the tyres of Municipal vehicles during get punctured be immediately made functional by the active staff of workshop. Mayor further appeal to the general public to cooperate with JMC and District Administration as the department has already put all its machinery as well as field staff from the last three months for fumigation & sanitization of all the wards of Jammu city in order to contain the spread of covid-19 pandemic and appeal to them to maintain their personal hygiene, maintain proper cleanliness in an around their surroundings as well as proper social distancing and follow the guidelines of Distt. Administration issued time to time to break the chain of Coronavirus.