Jamshedpur: Stains in community toilets and all the muck inside the inter-state bus terminus here would soon be a thing of the past.

In a last-ditch effort to rev up the city's ranking in the pan-India sanitation survey (Swachh Survekshan 2018) scheduled later this month, Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) has started using high-pressure water jets to give the community toilets located across the city and Sitaramdera bus terminus a sparkling look. In 2017, Jamshedpur was ranked 64 among 434 cities.

Two private agencies, which have been hired by the civic body, have started work already. "The agencies, PK Enterprise and Jharkhand Enterprise, have been entrusted with the responsibility of cleaning the community toilets and the bus bay regularly. On the first day on Sunday, we used one of the three water jets to clean the floor and toilets of the terminus. From Monday onwards, the toilets and the bus bay would be cleaned at least twice a day, once in the morning and evening," said JNAC special officer Sanjay Kumar Pandey.

JNAC has recently constructed seven community toilets on the banks of Kharkai and Subernarekha in addition to the 18 toilets across the city. This apart, there are 27 public toilets which are maintained by private entities (Sulabh Sauchalay) and are cleaned regularly.

"Cleaning the community toilets by flushing is difficult as people soil the edges, too. Some stains just wouldn't go using tap water. Water jets are ideal to clean such old stains apart from keeping the floors clean. The floor of the bus terminus hadn't been cleaned for years. However, the spray wiped out all those dirty marks on Sunday," said Shakil Mehdi Anwar, JNAC city manager and nodal officer of Swachh Bharat Mission.

The decision to use the water jets have brought smiles on the faces of passengers and bus operators.

"It was a long-pending demand of bus operators to use jet sprays to clean the slippery grease stains and the blots in the toilet. The jet spray worked like magic. The JNAC official has assured that the terminus would be regularly cleaned," said Upender Sharma, patron, Jamshedpur Bus Owners Welfare Association.

Nearly, 30,000 passengers flock to the terminus daily to board buses, numbering around 400, that leave for various destinations in Jharkhand, Bihar, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.