Expressing dissatisfaction at illegal hoardings and banners defacing the city, Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat directed officials to undertake a stringent campaign to clear such hoardings, starting with the illegal hoardings which carry his picture.
He issued this and other instructions while chairing a review meeting of the Urban Development and Housing department along with the Finance Minister Prakash Pant and urban development minister Madan Kaushik here on Friday.
The Chief Minister said that cent per cent effort should be put in to securing a place for the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun among the top 100 in the Swachchh Survekshan 2018.
At the meeting, the Chief Minister announced that the first three local bodies of the state to secure a position in the top 200 in the Swachchh Survekshan 2018 will be presented Rs 75 lakh, Rs 50 lakh and Rs 25 lakh respectively.
The director of urban development, Vinod Suman informed that a target has been set for making all the 101 local bodies including nine cantonment boards in the state open defecation free (ODF) by March 31 this year. Claims of 81 bodies for
ODF status have been submitted to the government of India and of these the claims of 22 local bodies have been certified by the government so far. He said that for the Swachchh Survekshan, the city profiles of all participating local bodies have been updated online. While the survey work has been completed in 22 local bodies, the same will be completed in 23 other local bodies by January 24.
Regarding waste management, it was stated in the meeting that city sanitation plan had been drafted for liquid and solid waste management in 14 clusters comprising 24 local bodies.
Under this plan, door to door collection of garbage is being undertaken in 706 out of 906 wards.
The task of preparing compost from garbage has also been started in 13 cities. While a solid waste management plant costing Rs 24.6 crore has been built in Dehradun, similar facilities costing Rs 16.72 crore in Haridwar and Rs 34.88 crore in Haldwani are in the process of being developed. A Rs 56.88 crore plan for the Roorkee cluster has been approved by the NITI Aayog for technical assistance. These four major facilities will handle about 42 per cent of the 1,400 tonnes of solid waste generated per day in the state.
Rawat also directed the officials to also focus on the condition of roads, electricity supply, street lights and parks in all urban local bodies. He also said that all development authorities should ensure the observance of regulations pertaining to rain water harvesting systems in homes.
He also directed officials to think seriously on long term plans for facilitating water supply in the future in all urban areas.
Regarding the water supply, the potable water secretary Arvind Singh Hyanki informed that it was 135 litre per capita daily (lPCD) in 23 urban local bodies, 70-135 lPCD in 37 local bodies, 40-70 lPCD in 20 local bodies and less than 40 lPCD in 12 urban areas. Tankers are used to supply water in 422 localities identified as experiencing potable water supply problem.