Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) awarded the Clean City Award in National Media Center at New Delhi on Thursday. Director of State Urban Development Agency Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Deputy Commissioner, Bokaro Rai Mahimapat Ray and Executive Officer of Chas Municipal Corporation Krishna Kumar received the honor on behalf of CMS from the Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu.
In February this year, a cleanliness survey was conducted in 500 cities of the country. “Chas has been declared the clean city, surveyed for the government cleanliness ranking by the Quality Council of India, according to the Swachh Survekshan 2017 report. CMC ranked 41th position in the entire country for cleanliness; declared the second cleanest city in eastern India and the most clean city of Jharkhand,” informed an official.
Chas also known as the satellite city of Bokaro district declared open defecation-free by the Ministry of Urban Development in February this year. CMC is first Municipal Corporation in Jharkhand, got the ODF status. “After two successive survey conducted by the teams of Quality Control of India, Chas got the status. This is the result of all our efforts, its proud moment for us,” said the official. Notably, defecation in the open was completely banned in Chas (Bokaro) on 22 December 2016 and section 133 of CrPC was imposed in a bid to achieve open defecation-free (ODF) status under the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA).