Cleanliness survey of 500 cities has to be done by the Union Ministry of Urban Development from January 20, 2017. Various aspects of the cleanliness standards would be covered in the widespread survey that would include various points of cleanliness standards.
Union Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu addressed the Municipal Corporation and Municipalities officers of these cities through video conferencing in the NIC centers of their respective cities on Monday.
In Bhopal, Naidu while addressing the Municipal Corporation and Municipalities officers through video conferencing at NIC centre in Vindhyachal Bhawan, told to take the initiative by making the cleanliness of the city as the mass movement by involving citizens, resident welfare associations and commercial institutions with it.
Swachh Bharat Mission Director Praveen Prakash was also present with the union urban minister during the video conferencing.
Naidu also took the occasion to launch booklets over guidelines of cleanliness survey and scoring. He informed the city officials that cities will be ranked based on the reports by urban local bodies on the progress made towards construction of toilets, feedback of citizens and independent observation of sanitation levels. Cities with a population of one lakh and above each, heritage and tourism cities, capital cities with less than one lakh population are included in this survey, the second since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission he added.
Naidu said that since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime Minister in October, 2014, there has been a huge positive upsurge of attitudes towards cleanliness and urged city officials to rise to the occasion and meet the aspirations of the people by helping them in construction of toilets.
During the video conferencing at NIC centre in Vindhyachal Bhawan Bhopal Municipal Corporation and Directorate of Urban Administration and Development Department was represented by Additional Commissioner MP Singh while Swachh Bharat Mission in-charge Nilesh Dube, Deputy Commissioner Swachh Bharat Mission Harshit Tiwari, KPMG team representative Suman Sharma and representatives of NGOS were present.