Official Twitter account of Office of incumbent First Citizen and Honorable Mayor of Srinagar
@Junaid_Mattu
. Tweets by the Hon’ble Mayor will be signed ‘J.A.M’
We have illuminated the Clock Tower (‘Ghanta Ghar’) at Lal Chowk in colours of the Tricolour ahead of Independence Day. 🇮🇳
New clocks fitted.
Well done Team
@SMC_Srinagar
!
Targeted violence against Kashmiris in various parts of the country only helps the perpetrators of terror and division. Kashmiris have rendered innumerable sacrifices fighting terrorism and violence. Reach out - make them feel safe and protected. The Mayor’s appeal. Pls RT
Shocking revelations that the
@INCIndia
nominated Srinagar Deputy Mayor is planning assassinations and blasts in Srinagar are grave. Hon’ble Governor called me last night to express his concern for my security and also assured that the law would take its toll in this matter. 1/n
Good news about
#4G
restoration in Kashmir coming very soon. Will go a long way in helping in the current circumstances. Gratitude to the Administration and the Central Govt.
#Srinagar
As our Tulip Garden in Srinagar opens for visitors tomorrow, as the Mayor of Srinagar I welcome you, your friends and your families to Srinagar!
We are a city with a heart and a warmth that beckons!
Srinagar awaits your arrival!
Yours truly,
@Junaid_Mattu
Mayor of Srinagar
Last meeting of the day.
@listenshahid
and our team - Coordinating for scaling up and improvising. An eventful day but tremendous work by the field teams today - SMC again at the forefront. Want to help our efforts? Do us a favour and
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
#Srinagar
#COVID
ー19
Proud of my heroes! These are
#Srinagar
’s true heroes today! The SMC successfully and efficiently sterilized a 350 yard radius of the house of the
#COVID2019
positive case from Khayam, Khanyar. Ten squads, special chemicals and equipment - protective gear! Proud to serve!
SMC has started collaborative work on fabricating ‘Disinfecting Tunnels’ that we aim to install outside ALL major hospitals in Srinagar. As is being done in China and Turkey. First prototype expected within 24 hours. Everyone going in and coming out will be decontaminated!
Two more positive cases - two babies - siblings. We can’t afford widespread community transmission! How careful and cognizant we ALL are THIS WEEK will define the future trajectory of
#COVID19
in
#Srinagar
! PLEASE DONT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY! Please STAY HOME! Help our efforts!!!
As we share the sad news of our first
#Covid19
fatality, my heart goes out to the family of the deceased. We stand with you and share your grief.
I also salute the brave doctors at CD Hospital for their efforts.
Let’s do our bit and help
#BreakTheChain
and
#StayHomeStaySafe
.
The two new cases in
#Srinagar
are from Haakh Bazaar, Hawal and Mahjoor Nagar vicinities. We have concluded the Ahmad Nagar decontamination and we are now moving towards the other two sites. Reiterate the need for everyone to
#StayAtHome
! Help us
#BreakTheChain
!
There is also some positive progress on the 4G Internet Issue - seems like we are progressing towards restoration soon. I thank the Hon’ble LG for endorsing and supporting the request conveyed officially in my meeting with him this morning at Jammu.
#Srinagar
Thousands of Kashmiris have laid down their lives fighting the scourge of violence, terror. To target and harass innocent Kashmiris outside Kashmir is a great disservice to the spirit of their sacrifices. These acts help the perpetrators of such attacks. Appeal for sanity, peace!
A crucial cargo airlift for SMC is finally underway at midnight! Indebted to
@ChinarcorpsIA
and
@IAF_MCC
for helping us at SMC get our procured 150 knapsack mechanized boom sprayers and an additional 3,000 liters of QAC from Surat! This will tremendously enhance our capacity!
Besides many demands from various public quarters and requests from augmentation of resources to fight
#COVID2019
, I also requested the Hon’ble LG for the restoration of
#4G
services in the UT. The Hon’ble LG said he endorsed this public demand and would consider it positively.
As promised, SMC Mechanical Wing has started fabrication of disinfecting tunnels to be placed outside our hospitals. They will decontaminate everyone going in and everyone coming out. Game changer. We are making three different prototypes. Watch this space.
#Srinagar
#Covid19
.
I don’t delete my tweets. Relax Rifat. I have credible information to believe there is going to be positive headway on
#4G
very soon. I’d rather be a fool than a cynic. If it doesn’t happen - I’ll try MORE and KEEP trying till it happens. Cynicism is a luxury I can’t afford. - JM
Been extremely disappointed and anguished by pictures of stray dogs inside the CD Hospital compound. Ashamed even. SMC - besides launching dog catching teams around the hospital tomorrow - will also volunteer and construct a periphery wall all around the hospital to change this!
Have offered the services of the entire SMC Works Wing - our civil engineering department - for the conversion of
#Srinagar
’s Indoor Stadium into a temporary quarantine center/field hospital (~👇🏼) WITHIN 7 days. Spoke to
@listenshahid
and extended our voluntary support.
#COVID19
Unfurled the tricolor and inspected the JK Police Guard at Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) Complex, Srinagar today after attending the Republic Day Parade at Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium. Republic Day greetings to all of you.
#RepublicDay2019
#Srinagar
Supervised another MASSIVE operation by SMC! All wards/interiors of Chest Disease Hospital and also a 300 meter radius area around hospital DECONTAMINATED and STERILIZED! Salute our guys who didn’t even blink ONCE before walking into the hospital today!
#COVID19
#Srinagar
Watch👇🏼
This evening, I have written to
@HMOIndia
Sh.
@AmitShah
requesting that
#4G
Internet Services are restored in J&K to help minimize the impact of the
#COVID2019
preventive measures for students who are scheduled to take their board, entrance, aptitude examinations.
In view of the new positive cases from
#Srinagar
, the SMC will conduct extensive and elaborate sterilization and decontamination exercises in both areas from where positive cases have emerged - to minimize possibility of community transmission.
#COVID
ー19
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
Second consecutive day of NO positive case from
#Srinagar
and what it means:
1. Lockdown, distancing, quarantine, decontamination, contact tracing showing results!
2. Need to *INCREASE* all efforts to ensure we FURTHER reduce ANY chance of a community transmission of
#Covid19
!
700 boxes of sanitary pads being delivered to all quarantine facilities housing female students free of cost - as promised. Thank You to Mr. Aqib from Seha for prompt voulnteer action.
#Srinagar
#COVID
ー19
#UnitedWeStand
In these challenging times, let’s express our love and admiration for Srinagar - the city we all love and are proud of!
Tweet a picture of Srinagar you like with hashtag
#OneSrinagar
and I will RT it here!
#TogetherWeWin
#StaySafeStayHome
Before sunrise tomorrow - a joint team of SMC and Revenue Dept (District Administration) will conduct a survey of a 300 mtr radius area from the house of the positive case from Khanyar while most of us will still be fast asleep. This will be VITAL for quarantine. God bless them!
Have just spoken to Union Health Secretary Smt. Preeti Sudan and sought the Ministry’s help in expediting the airlifting of essential sterilization machines and chemicals procured by SMC from Surat and Mumbai. Anxiously waiting to receive the cargo. Will triple our capacity!
After MULTIPLE instances of sanitation workers being BRUTALLY beaten by policemen in Srinagar, I AGAIN brought the matter into the notice of SSP Srinagar yesterday - along with this video - where SMC employees are being SINGLED OUT, thrashed, abused - as if for ENTERTAINMENT! 1/n
Spike in positive cases is because of exemplary and aggressive contact tracing by
@srinagaradmin
. And the fact that the cases are pre-quarantined and contact cases of previous positive cases means there is still no community transmission. To keep it this way
#StayHomeSaveLives
!
IMPORTANT: I request ALL Srinagarites to STAY at their homes from tomorrow morning and venture out ONLY when absolutely necessary. Those with ANY flu like symptoms should immediately home quarantine themselves. Report for screening/testing if symptoms worsen.
#COVID2019
1/n
A
#COVID
ー19 “lockdown” is useless if shops are shut but you and your friends or family goes out for a social visit or a city tour or sit outside your localities perched on stairs of shops!!! NO you can’t go out to the playground too!!!
#STAYHOME
! For as LONG as possible!!!!!!!!!
Not a good start to the day - prayed for something better last night. 5 more cases in Kashmir, 2 in
#Srinagar
and 2 in neighboring Budgam. I also express my solidarity with the family of the deceased
#Covid19
patient who passed away this morning. Let’s increase all our efforts...
Checking the new area boom sprayers we received today. They are the latest in technology and efficacy and will effectively disinfect a radius of 50 feet while being towed. We will commission these tomorrow and start disinfecting all major roads in the city!
#SrinagarFightsBack
!
3 more positive cases in
#Srinagar
- 7 new cases in all in
#Kashmir
. SMC coordinating for details for location decontaminations. The thing which will matter MOST is how strictly we self enforce and adhere to the social distancing and lockdown norms! PLEASE
#StayHome
to Help us!
Glad to announce that EVERY
#SMC
sanitation worker will now be covered under a Health Insurance Cover with a limit of upto 50 LAKH rupees per employee. They deserve this and MORE and we are committed to their welfare, safety and will uphold their service!
#Covid19
#Srinagar
For those asking - Once this challenge is past us InshaAllah - we will use these machines to spray Dust Control and Dust Retardant chemicals (with water) - to ensure Srinagar’s busiest roads remain dust-free.
#ReimaginingSrinagar
#SMC
.
Twenty teams of the SMC Sterilization and Decontamination Squads thoroughly decontaminated a 300 mtr radius from the house of an earlier positive case at Hyderpora. We used drones, GPS and sat imagery to ensure the entire area is covered! Impeccable operation.
#COVID19
#Srinagar
The bravest heroes in
#Srinagar
today are our doctors and paramedics and the allied support staff at our hospitals.
With a grossly inadequate infrastructure and EXTREMELY challenging workloads, they’ve marched on to the very frontlines of this battle - without any hesitation.
Sir sadly J&K doesn’t have a “Health Minister”, so not sure who is on the other end of this conversation with you. Our doctors, Sir, deserve the best possible protection. And Sir, I’m telling you for a fact - they don’t have it. I hope and pray that changes. We owe it to them.
We are all proud of our doctors and frontline healthcare workers - and we all stand with them. Our best mark of solidarity -
#StaySafeStayHome
#Srinagar
Good news. Have just been informed that the generator operator at the SMC Central Office has tested negative for
#Covid19
. His brother had tested positive and steps were then taken as per protocol. Better safe then sorry.
#StayHomeStaySafe
In one of the videos the Deputy Mayor of Srinagar is boasting about sending four militants to the house of a Corporator at night, forcing him to join
@jkpdp
. In another he is claiming he has placed militants at strategic locations in Srinagar. This can’t be taken lightly. 2/n
Let’s hope for
#4G
, not 0G. As I said - I would rather be a ‘fool’ than a cynic. I do expect positive news and headway and I said that. Thank You for your kind words :) 🙏🏻 - JM
@MayorofS
4G or or 0G ... you are doing a great job. Don't let distraction like these prop up unnecessarily Brother. You are on the frontline ina war (on COVID--19)
Deeply concerned at visuals of huddled crowds at various branches of J&K Bank. I’ve spoken to the Bank officials and asked them to take effective steps. It’s a big institution and I’m sure it can resolve this with some extra effort. Let’s not leave everything to the Police.
Repeated reports of violation of lockdown in the evenings from some areas including Mahjoor Nagar, Chanpora and some interior areas of the Old City. Please don’t force the administration to resort to tough, penal measures. Please STAY AT HOME for your own welfare! 🙏🏻
Jawahar Nagar decontamination of 400 meters radius area from house of positive case plus all vulnerable public hotspots in the area completed. 16 mechanized teams. Thorough operation. 200 houses plus 40 shops. Masjids too. 4 such sites done today. Ahmed Nagar in the morning!
The persistent crowds outside bank branches - especially those of JK Bank - is a matter of concern. I am sitting with representatives of various banks today to convey a sense of gravity and seek some immediate, effective measures to ensure they do their bit.
#Srinagar
#Covid19
No new positive cases in
#Srinagar
today. Good news for sure BUT
PLEASE don’t let this give you a false sense of reprieve.
This battle is LONG from over!
Let’s INCREASE our efforts! Let’s DO MORE! Let’s ensure we
#StayHome
!
Let’s win this - TOGETHER!
#Covid19
Innovations, practices/ methods used by the Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) in its
#Covid19
response have become a benchmark across the country.
A lot of MCs are getting in touch with us. Our ideas are being emulated. This is a rare occasion where we are leading the way.
Received this video from the Natipora - Ram Bagh stretch. Where are people headed to? Clearly all these vehicles don’t have emergent reasons?
Please don’t wait for the Police to tell you what’s right for you and US!
GET OFF THE ROADS!
#STAYSAFESTAYHOME
#Srinagar
#COVID
ー19
I have no doubt that the law of the land,
@JmuKmrPolice
and our security agencies will thwart all nefarious designs and bring this man to book. I stand by the elected representatives and assure them that their safety is paramount and won’t be compromised. 4/4
Have received distress messages about requirement of sanitary supplies at quarantine facilities. I don’t/won’t agee with the quarantine protocol/policy BUT that doesn’t stop me from helping our students. I’m arranging and sending sanitary supplies to EVERY facility free of cost.
The first Decontamination and Sanitization Tunnel manufactured and commissioned by
#SMC
has started operating at Chest Diseases Hospital,
#Srinagar
! Overjoyed by the response by the frontline health workers and doctors! We will cover EVERY hospital! Proud of our Mech Engineers!!!
Look out for a new innovation from
#SMC
very soon. In addition to machines we have procured and the decontamination tunnel we have made - there are going to be some more creative innovations. Sitting with our Mechanical Engineers. Watch this space.
#Srinagar
#StayHomeSaveLives
This entails a palpable security risk for not only elected Corporators but also public at large since the Deputy Mayor of Srinagar continues to be protected by Police and CRPF and is operating and communicating freely. I am writing to the
@PMOIndia
seeking appropriate action. 3/n
The SMC has commissioned and operationalized 4 Boom Sprayers in
#Srinagar
today. The drill covered the area from Karan Nagar to TRC. These machines are based on Italian Tech and Parts and assembled in India. We had initiated the procurement process a month ago.
#Covid19
Isolated reports of localized water-logging from some pockets. Chairing a City Drainage and Dewatering Review Meeting shortly to ensure our Engineering Wings are equally focused on their work while our Health, Sanitation and Decontamination teams focus on
#COVID19
precautions!
As promised, SMC has set up a bio-hazardous waste incinerator for Srinagar - for all such waste that needs to be classified and disposed as such. We start tests hopefully from tomorrow. Now to get that wall erected around the CD Hospital. That’s tomorrow’s extra challenge. GN.
Patient from Verinaag, who was discharged from LD Hospital and had trouble reaching home with her family - are on their way to Verinaag. An officer of SMC was deputed to monitor. Gratitude to Help Poor Voluntary Trust for coming forward - as always - and helping! Matter resolved.
Thank You
@rifatabdullahh
for bringing this man’s plight in today’s rains to my notice during my tours. After first aid, new dry clothes and a hot meal - handed over to his kin. We need to be more compassionate towards our lesser privileged elders who need our love and help.
We will start a decontamination operation at and around a 300 meters radius from the location of the positive case at Ahmed Nagar shortly. 4 Mobile Mech Squads and 17 KS sprayers. Request people in the area to cooperate and continue to stay indoors.
#StayHomeStaySafe
.
#Srinagar
Wishing all of you
#NavrozMubarak
! This Navroz I’m grateful to those of our officers and field teams who are not celebrating at home but out in the field doing their duty against
#Covid_19
. Their sacrifice and sense of duty is an inspiration for all of us.
#Srinagar
SMC has mobilized an Intensive Area Decontamination and Sterilization Operation with QAC for a 300 meters radius area around CD Hospital, Dalgate. A knapsack Mech squad is also going inside for hospital decontamination. Operation underway.
#Srinagar
#COVID19
#StayHomeSaveLives
Have just requested the Hon’ble LG Shri G. C. Murmu to order the suspension the Banihal-Srinagar-Baramulla train service.
#Srinagar
#COVID2019
#Precautions
SMC Decontamination and Sanitizing teams will enter the Lal Bazaar Containment Area around 1:00 pm today. This follows a similar operation in the Chattabal Containment Zone. Make it easier for them by staying indoors and cooperating fully.
#Srinagar
#SMC
#Covid19
Battle against Novel Coronavirus!
#StaySafeStayHome
Your greatest service to Srinagar? GET OFF THE ROADS if there is no urgent need or emergency and STAY AT HOME PLEASE!
Issued in Public Interest by Mayor, Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC)
Please RT
#COVID19
#Srinagar
All education institutions - private or public - Including Coaching Centers as well as gymnasium, sports clubs, indoor stadia to remain closed from tomorrow. The SMC will now start sterilization/sanitization of schools, hospitals, mosques/temples, public venues from tomorrow.
SMC is taking legal action against a self-proclaimed journalist for spreading misinformation in such crucial and critical times.
We are also seeking immediate action against him under the DMA.
Request our field workers to continue working hard. Allah sees what we are doing.
We have hired loaders and excavators and stocked them at the SMC Transport Yard ahead of tomorrow’s forecast.
Drivers lodged at nearby hotels.
A minimum of one machine to be deployed for each of the 74 electoral wards.
6 machines on standby for medical emergency evacuation.
Mayor Srinagar
@Junaid_Mattu
unfurled the National Flag, took the salute and presided over the Republic Day Function held at Srinagar Municipal Corporation Headquarters at 7:45 am this morning.
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Any mechanical and electronic engineers? Design whiz-kids out there?
Can there be a ‘Jugaad’?
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Have ideas? GET IN TOUCH.
#COVID
ー19
#India
#ventilators
Have written to DC Srinagar,
@listenshahid
Sb recommending a categorized partial monthly few-waiver and a 100% transport fee waiver for students of private educational institutions in Srinagar. Partial because it is also important that teachers/staff of these institutes get paid.
The
#Covid19
challenge is an opportunity for global cathartic introspection. Here in Kashmir, we need to introspect too �� for instance - could our healthcare system have been better? Did we wake up on time? It would be a shame to impede this introspection. If not now then when?
Am I happy with the needless, unscientific “quarantine” of students flying in? NO!
Is it a violation of WHO, Health and Civil Av Ministry guidelines? YES!
Am I raising my voice about this? YES! REPEATEDLY BUT INTERNALLY!
Don’t let THIS be a distraction - help by STAYING HOME!
SMC’s Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel - tested for 4 hours non stop. This will now be covered and ready to be deployed. Chemicals being used are biodegradable and safe for human contact - non-irritant. We will be place our first 2 tunnels at CD Hospital and SMHS.
#Srinagar
Drove through Shehar-e-Khaas from Munawarabad - Buchpora and saw the absolutely amazing work of our newly commissioned SMC Boom Sprayers’ Squads. Posting short video clips from some locations from Shehar-e-Khaas. Humbled by how warmly people showered their love! Locations: 1/n
Received the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri
@narendramodi
Ji on his arrival in Srinagar today. Express gratitude for the landmark development projects that were launched and announced for all the regions of the State today.
@PMOIndia
Met the Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir this evening and volunteered SMC’s field network for distribution of sustenance ration packs per family - especially the BPL families in Srinagar - in view of expected prolonged restrictions and the lockdown.
#Srinagar
#COVID
ー19
#StayHome
Wish all my Kashmiri friends
#Navreh
Poshte! This is an occasion to come together, unite and pray for the safety and well-being of our people and pray for all those doctors, healthcare workers and field-workers who are fighting the battle against
#COVID19
.
Three consecutive Intensive 300 meter radius decontamination and sterilization operations are being launched at three different locations in Srinagar by SMC - corresponding with the four new positive cases from yesterday.
#SrinagarFightsBack
#COVID19
#StayHomeSaveLives
Urge all residents who might have come in contact with the
#COVID2019
positive case in
#Srinagar
to report to their nearest health facilities or contact the control room at 2457552 or 2457543 or 9419028251 or 9419028242 or 9419014723 — this is VITAL and not to be ignored.
Am inviting senior doctors with expertise and specialization in Social & Preventive Medicine (SPM), Infectious Diseases, Pulmonology, Critical Care, Geriatrics and Epidemiology to learn and inquire about what we need to be doing at SMC and if we are on the right course.
#Srinagar
The Mayor’s Office is establishing a Volunteer’s Facilitation cell for thousands of J&K residents stranded outside the UT.
If you are in
#Srinagar
, are willing to volunteer for the facilitation cell and have a laptop - please DM your contact details and name.
Please RT.
Met the Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor this morning along with Deputy Mayor and presented the following urgent demands that are necessitated in view of the
#COVID2019
lockdown and repercussions. Now headed back to
#Srinagar
. All proposals accepted in principle. Grateful!
Administration has initiated the commissioning of the ‘Tree Authority’ for Srinagar City as per the J&K Municipal Corporation Act, 2000. As Ex-Officio Chairperson of the Authority my goal will be plantation of 10,00,000 trees in Srinagar. Ambitious but required!
#GreenSrinagar
Have issued directives for an INTENSIVE inch-by-inch sterilization of the ENTIRE neighborhood at Khayam, Khanyar with specialized chemical spraying where a positive case for
#Covid2019
was detected and evacuated yesterday. Ten squads with ten mobile sterilization units mobilized.
SMC will be decontaminating and sterlizing 300 meter radius areas at three different locations in Srinagar tomorrow morning corresponding with the residence-localities where we have had new positive cases. The activity areas are being defined on sat-imagery right now.
Our Decontamination & Sanitizing Tunnels are completely safe, medically approved AND endorsed and DONT use Sodium Hypochlorite or alcohol based chemicals! The biodegradable chemical used is 5th Generation, a VERY effective Virucide and SAFE for human contact. No propaganda pls!
SMC will place and operationalize its first Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel at the entry to Chest Diseases Hospital at 4 o clock today. 16 more tunnels under fabrication. The tunnel picture below awaits final fabrication at site.
#SMC
has made this from scratch!
#Srinagar
Another special squad of SMC sterilization with 8 of these machines will also be permanently stationed at the Srinagar International Airport from tomorrow headed by a Unit Officer for mechanized, intensive sterilization.
#Srinagar
#COVID
ー19
#InThisTogether