The State Government is planning to distribute two bags every month to the residents of Dehradun so that they use them to throw garbage in the dust bins, said the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat after flagging off 19 sanitation vehicles here on Thursday.
These vehicles were handed over to the Municipal Corporation for garbage disposal.
Rawat said that the bags would be used to keep the plastic and non plastic garbage separate which would help in its proper disposal.
He appealed the residents of the city to do their bit to keep the state capital clean. Incidentally Dehradun figured in the list of 98 smart cities released by union government on Thursday.
These cities would be provided huge central funds to improve facilities. Expressing happiness at Dehradun making it the list of smart cities, CM said new possibilities for the city would be opened with this.
He said that the State Government had made all possible efforts to ensure that name of the state capital is there in the list of smart cities. The CM said that the urbanisation is rapidly increasing and efforts should be made to make available necessary resources for the increasing population of the urban centres.
Rawat said that the state government would provide necessary financial help to the municipal corporation for setting up a treatment plant at Sheesham Bada.
He announced a grant of `1 crore to MDDA and Municipal Corporation for under ground dustbins. The CM said that city of Dehradun has expanded by 60 percent in last 10 years and efforts should be made to augment financial resources for the rapidly developing city. He said that politics should be kept away from development of the city. Rawat stressed the need to develop new colonies for low income group families.
Speaking on the occasion the Mayor of Dehradun, Vinod Chamoli highlighted the need to take up a campaign of sanitation in the city.
The Raipur MlA Umesh Sharma Kau, Secretary Urban development D S Gabriyal, DM Dehradun Ravinath Raman and MNA Nitin Bhadoria were present on the occasion.