Government of India

CUP-19: COVID Urban Practices : Innovation / Initiative

A Glimpse of Initiative


Massive Disinfection Of Public Spaces


State/UT Name : Gujarat

Place : All over the city

Type of Initiative : Sanitation

Date of Initiative : 09-04-2020

What Initiative Were Taken? : Massive Disinfection Of Public Spaces

Details : Door to Door disinfection & fumigation is carried out by highly equipped & skilled teams in the area of positive cases of Covid - 19 as well as home quarantees. Till date 10.92 lakh litres of sterilization materials used & 12.22 lakh litres disinfectant medicine also fumigated all over the city.

Outcome : Disinfection operation was taken up for all the 252 municipal parks and gardens. A special care is taken to ensure that the children play areas and the senior citizens are disinfected. In fact, the cleaning operations of garden benches are being disinfected everyday manually in order to stop local spread of virus.