CHANDIGARH, Jan. 13 -- IN a major reformist move towards ending scourage of manual scavenging from state, the Punjab Water Supply & Sanitation department has operationalised a project of advanced robotic cleaning of sewerage. Robots will be cleaning sewerages in state from now on.
Disclosing this here today, Water Supply & Sanitation Minister Razia Sultana stated that the project would be started from Sri Muktsar Sahib on the auspicious occasion of Maghi. In the first phase, the hi-tech robotic machine 'Bandikooto' designed by Jenrobotics company of Kerala would commence human-free sewerage cleaning in Sri Muktsar Sahib which would save employees from dangers of grave problems caused by physical cleaning of sewerages and by exposure from t...