Patna Municipal Corporation joins hands with UNPF to eliminate manual scavenging
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The Patna Municipal Corporation has joined hands with the United Nations Population Fund to rehabilitate slums and eliminate manual scavenging. PMC aims to rehabilitate 110 slums by next year and the two bodies have signed a memorandum of understanding. PMC has also procured a spider-shaped robot to get rid of manual scavenging. "We aim to rehabilitate a total of 50 slums by the year-end," said PMC commissioner Himanshu Sharma.