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NSS volunteers clean traffic signboards in Mysore city

Staff Correspondent

The drive will be carried out on the second Sunday of every month

MYSORE: National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteers had a different work on their hand on Sunday.

The Department of Police has sought the assistance of these volunteers from various city colleges to clean traffic signboards that have been defaced or have not been cleaned for a while.

The cleaning drive, which will be carried out on the second Sunday of every month, was inaugurated by Police Commissioner Praveen Sood at Nallappa Thana Traffic police station on Sunday.

250 volunteers

More than 250 NSS volunteers have been deployed in the city to take up the cleaning of traffic sign boards. The Department of Police has arranged for buckets, sponge, and ladders for the cleaning drive.

Delineators

Instruction boards, delineators, reflective studs, tubular cones, solar cat eyes, object markers, and chevron indicators were taken up for cleaning.

Students divided into groups cleaned the signboards on the thoroughfares of the city.

Sources in the Police department said that some of the signboards erected for the benefit of motorists had been defaced or had not been cleaned for sometime.

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