City Mayor Malini Gaud here on Thursday announced the best cleanliness survey drives for various wards of Indore city. Announcing this at a Capacity Building workshop at Brilliant Convention Centre, the Mayor said the best cleanliness survey will run in the city till October 2 this year, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
This survey will have as many as 20 categories like the best market, the best colony, best bazaar, best restaurant, hotel, hostel, caterer, food stall, hospital, etc.. She called upon city corporators that like Indore which has emerged as number one city in the all India cleanliness survey, you all need to strive hard by competing with each other so as to make your ward as the cleanest ward of the city. The cleanliness survey of wards will be done in a transparent manner on the basis of the cleanliness of the ward, enthusiasm of the residents of the wards, corporator's leadership ability and performance of municipal corporation squads, the Mayor said appealing all the city corporators, social organizations, institutions to take part in this best cleanliness survey with their active participation.
The Mayor while speaking about the journey of Indore to become the cleanest city of India said that in order to make Indore as number one clean city of the country, the municipal corporation set three objectives and that was to make Indore dustbin free, litter free and dust free and it can be done through constant monitoring and by increasing self-confidence of the corporation employees sanitary works and increasing their efficiency, we first provided wireless set vehicles to CSIs of all 19 zones of Indore municipal corporation and subsequently started collecting door to door garbage from as many as 4.50 lakh household, 1.50 lakh business establishments twice a day and in some high pressure areas, the door to door garbage were collected thrice day. She said the door to door garbage collection was constantly monitored by the IMC squads in various localities of the city.
She said in order to make Indore dustbin free, the IMC removed all 1,300 big and small garbage and dustbins from various parts of the city.Sincere execution of our plans paid off and now Indore city which is spread over in an area of 245 sq meters has totally become dustbin free city, the Mayor said.
Similarly in order to make the city litter bin free, the municipal corporation put up 5,000 green and blue litter bin across the city. This has also yielded enthusiastic results and now we are not seeing any litter being strewn around.
In order to further improve the scenario, the corporation will be putting up 5,000 additional litter bins across the city in the coming days which will further help city people to keep dry and wet garbage in green and blue litter bin separately, the Mayor said adding that in order to make the city dust gree, the IMC purchased four mechanical road sweeping machines, while took 10 world class road swiping machines on rent to clean city road during the night. Along with these sweeping machines, the IMC also deputed as many as 150 cleanliness employees so as to collect dust from road side. In order to make city roads and its dividers further clean, the IMC squads every night wash city rotaries, road dividers, footpath with the help of 10 jet spray machines, the Mayor said.
Indore municipal commissioner Manish Singh while giving a presentation about steps taken to make Indore as the cleanest city of India, said the credit for this goes to the able leadership of Indore Mayor and enthusiastic support of Indore people. He however, said the crown of number one clean city that has been given to Indore, has further increased responsibilities of the IMC and we will take all required initiatives to to help Indore retain its tag of the cleanest city of Indore in the coming years, he added.