Mechanical sweepers to keep Noida’s roads clean from today

NOIDA: Starting Saturday night, Noida’s streets will be swept clean by a UK-based company’s mechanical sweeper. Launched as part of the 15-day ‘Clean Noida’ drive, Noida Authority chairperson and CEO Rama Raman will launch the mechanical sweeping project in the city from Saturday.
Raman said that the aim was to keep his pledge of a ‘clean Noida’ to the people of the city. “Not an inch of the city will be spared and all areas, whether residential commercial, institutional or industrial, will be scoured and cleaned,” Raman said.
Raman will flag off the machine officially from Master Plan (MP)-II road at 8.15am opposite Great India Place Mall near Sector 18, but the integrated automated sweeping of six main roads measuring a distance of nearly 70sqkm will commence on Saturday night.
According to officials, in the first phase, sweeping will be undertaken across Noida’s MP-I, MP-II, MP-III, and Dadri-Surajpur-Chalera (DSC) roads – now officially known as Lt Vijayant Thapar Marg, Noida-Greater Noida expressway and Udyog Marg.
Nearly 70km of road ways across Noida will be cleaned and swept. “The six key main roads of Noida will be swept at night,” said Akhilesh Singh, Additional CEO, Noida. “Manual sweeping will be undertaken on internal roads where the mechanized process cannot be adopted,” he said.
The project, which has come at a total estimated cost of about Rs 38 crore, has been implemented for a five-year contract inked with a consultant selected for the project. “The appointed consultant will be responsible for the operation and maintenance of the three machines, ” Singh said.
A daily nocturnal schedule has been worked out for the machine. “Initially one machine will work to clean the city. In the next 10 days, we will procure the second one and by the end of this month a third machine will be kept on standby to ensure continuous cleaning,” Singh said. “The mechanical machine will not only sweep, but also wash the streets, wherever required,” he said.
The mechanical sweeper is equipped with three suction nozzles. It is also armed with three brushes — which are placed on the right, left and centre of the truck. The machine is capable of removing about 7 tonnes of waste and dust in one day, officials said.