Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced Swachh Survekshan awards 2020 in a ceremony on Wednesday and Indore had shone again by bagging the cleanest city award for the fourth year consecutively. The second place was grabbed by Surat and Navi Mumbai of Maharashtra came in third place.
Sanitation workers (Safai Mitra) were brimming with pride when they were honored. In a cleanliness campaign, Indore Municipal Corporations officials, MPs, MLAs and local residents took part with a vim and vigor and their collective participation paid off. The municipal workers kept working despite many areas being sealed due to corona virus and carried on their services to homes which had COVID positive cases as well without a complaint by providing constant supplies of vegetables and grocery and keeping the city clean as well.
The other initiatives which the city undertook were complete ban of single use plastic and implanted ‘Bartan (Utensils)’ bank in order to stop people from using disposable and getting habitual of older habits of using utensils in functions and gatherings. The other endeavor which they pulled off was to treat 15 lakh tonnes of rotting waste and turn Devguradia based trenching ground into forest city inhabited with 60,000 trees.
The Indore Municipal Corporation was able to turn 10 residential colonies into waste free zones and turned home garbage into fertilizer and was able to generate Rs. 40 crore revenue through their waste management techniques.
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