AIIMS Delhi launches Swachhata campaign to clear items awaiting disposal

New Delhi: The premier institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, recently launched a drive to clear items awaiting disposal, including old files and records, as well as take up sanitation, repair, and maintenance work as part of the central government's month-long campaign focused on clean workplaces. All department heads at AIIMS have been asked to control and monitor cleanliness in the institute.

The 'Special Campaign 2.0' was launched on October 2 by the Centre for ensuring cleanliness, including disposal of scrap, and reducing pendency in government offices and departments.

Old office records and files will be weeded out, according to the manual of office procedures, and administrative in-charges, including the chief's of centres and heads of departments, will go to areas under their control and monitor cleanliness and sanitation there, the order stated.

The order added that the cafeteria and hostel mess will also be deep cleaned and a special focus will be on maintaining the highest standards of hygiene and food safety. The engineering department will take up repair and maintenance work in all areas, including residential, with a special focus on aesthetics.

The order stated that the special focus will be on the hygiene and cleanliness of public and patient toilets. Posters, wherever required to be placed, will be on designated notice boards only and no almirahs, equipment, scrap will be kept in corridors, it stated.

"A special condemnation drive shall be taken up in all areas to clear any items which are awaiting condemnation. A detailed inventory of all such items shall be prepared and at least three faculty members shall sign on the same certifying that the said items are fit for condemnation based on objective criteria or service reports of maintenance agencies, etc," the order stated.

This list shall be immediately forwarded to the linked store section for organising a special condemnation drive, and till such time the condemnation is done, the items will be held in designated yards or in the vacant space in the basement, it stated.

Administrative in-charges of all areas will have to share images of pre and post the 'swatchhata' drive on contentprovider@aims.edu for hosting them on the 'AIIMS Swatchhata Wall'.

They have to also submit a report on the activities taken up under the 'Special Campaign 2.0' to the director's office by October 25 after which surprise assessments of cleanliness in various areas will be carried out by designated teams, the order stated.

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