Vikas Tyagi n
Having attained number 1 position for two consecutive years becoming cleanest city of the country under the administration of Indore Municipal Corporation, Mayor Malini Gaur is once again set to restore this title.
This time, the goal would be achieved with the cleanest city Indore Municipal Corporation is also working on enhancing the green landscape of the city. For this Indore Municipal Corporation commissioner Aashish Singh has come up with the new concept of reusing the sewerage water for watering the trees, and gardens of Indore city.
For this first time in the country a overhead tank is being constructed in Meghdoot garden area which will store the recycled sewerage water of the city and will supply it to different gardens of the city through the underground water pipelines. For this new 6 Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) is under construction in different parts of Indore city and the water recycled at this STPs will be sent to this overhead tank.
Besides, to enhance the cleanliness of the Indore city the Indore Municipal Corporation is doing the door to door awareness program to the citizens to reduce and recycle the garbage thrown by them. And for this Indore Municipal Corporation initially has distributed the pots to the people of lokmanya Nagar so they threw the wet garbage in this pot and use this garbage as natural fertilizer for the gardens of their houses and for the gardens of the colony.
After successfully testing this plan in lokmanya Nagar the pots has been distributed to more 100 colonies of Indore city which has reduced 100 tonnes of solid waste daily from this colonies. IMC commissioner Aashish Singh told The Pioneer that IMC is also starting the robotic segregation of dry solid waste and the cardboards, paper products, plastic products and plastic bottles will be 100 percent recycled. Also a project to convert the wet garbage in CNG is also in pipeline.
The other projects which Indore municipal corporation is working on priority is Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, Amrut Yojna, water conservation, construction and repairs of check dams, pond deepening and public utility work. Indore municipal corporation mayor Malini Gaud, Indore commissioner Raghvendra Singh, Indore Collector Nishant Warwade, ADM Indore Nidhi Nivedita, ADM Indore Kailash Wankhede ADM Indore Ajaydev Sharma and CEO Indore Jila Panchayat Neha Meena are all working as a team for Clean and Green Indore.