Secretary in Union Ministry of Urban Development Durga Shankar Mishra inspected various facilities provided to the citizens here on Saturday. On his visit to Bhopal, Mishra also met Mayor Alok Sharma and representatives of business associations, social and voluntary organisations, cultural organsiation and people’s representatives.
While addressing a programme, Mishra appreciated the steps taken to maintain cleanliness in the city. He said that Bhopal has been ranked second under Swacchta Survey 2017 as everyone contributed their bit in Swacchta Bharat Mission is commendable.
Addressing the meeting, the Mayor said that all the credit goes to the consistent hard work by people’s representatives and organisations for the achievement. He said that the drawbacks left last time will be fulfilled this time. He further said that there will new challenges for Swacchta Survey 2018 as Bhopal is in competition with 4000 cities.
Mayor further said that every citizen needs to work for achieving the first rank under Swacchta Survey 2018. During the meeting, the students of Engineering Department Barkatullah University presented the model of sensor based dustbin.
Prior to the meeting, Mishra inspected Public Utility Centre and instructed to plant trees and flowers in the area. He also inspected Smart Pole installed under Smart City Mission, Public Bike Sharing, RFID Smart Dustbins and inspected automatic ticket vending machine and sensor gates set up at BRTS corridors.
On his visit to Smart Bike Sharing, Mishra also rode My Bike at the cycle track and appreciated the initiative. later, he inspected the Deendayal Rasoi set up at Sahjehani Park and also tasted the dishes served there.
Mayor Alok Sharma informed Mishra that a utility centre has been established separately for the transgenders. Mayor further informed that under the upcoming survey awareness campaign will be carried out in city with the help of transgenders and for which they will be given honorarium.
During the meeting, representative of transgenders Pallavi Naik, Shilpa Tiwari, chairman of the BMC Surjit Singh Chauhan, BMC Commissioner Priyanka Das and representatives of various organisations were present.