ASP preaches clean-market mantra
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 08, 2012:
Imphal West district's Additional Superintendent of Police N Herojit has fervently appealed to women vendors plying their trades in the three market sheds of Khwairamband Keithel to ensure that the historic market place remains neat and clean.
Attending a religious ritual performed today at Market Shed No.2 (Imoinu Ima Keithel), Herojit reminded the women vendors that almost every tourists who come to Manipur prefer to visit the market place due to its historical significance of being the only market place exclusively run by female traders.
Even though the market sheds were constructed by the Government every women vendor should consider the market place as their personal belonging and thus maintain propriety of being a hygienic location, exhorted the police officer who also cautioned that random piling/throwing of wastes would not only breed diseases but will also be repugnant to the visitors.
Suggesting that women vendors pack vegetable wastes in a polythene bag and discard the same at a proper dumping place, Herojit also pointed out that women vendors have equal responsibility of keeping the market place in a neat and clean manner rather than expect the municipality personnel to sanitise the place.
Conveying that conducting social service on a regular basis would be helpful in maintaining cleanliness of the market place, he also informed his superior officer (SP) has entrusted the task of cleaning the market place to Kangleipak Economic Development Organisation as there is no separate fund allocation to sanitise the market place.
Herojit also desired that women vendors contribute atleast Rs 1 each on a daily basis to enable KEDO manage the market clean-up activities routinely.
Among others the function was also attended by SDPO (IW) N Modhunimai and City police Officer in-charge RK Tejbir.