Ambikapur city has been again recognized for maintaining cleanliness.
The Ambikapur Municipal Corporation (AMC) was bestowed with 5-star ranking in the Swachh Survekshan 2020 announced by the Union Ministry of Urban and Housing Affairs, officials said on Tuesday.
AMC was the lone municipal corporation across Chhattisgarh to get 5-star ranking.
Union Urban and Housing Minister Hardeep Singh Puri declared the ranking through web-casting.
Besides Ambikapur, Rajkot and Surat (Gujarat), Mysore (Karnataka), Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Indore (Madhya Pradesh) got 5-star rankings.
District Collector Dr Saransh Mittar, calling it a major achievement for the city, congratulated the people, Swacchhta Didi, AMC cleanliness workers as well as public representatives.
Ambikapur has been recognized many times in the past for cleanliness.
According to the district administration, garbage is daily collected from 27,300 houses and 200 shops. A user charge taken every month and home composting is done in about 1,600 houses in the city.
There are 18 SLRM (solid and liquid resource management) centres where Swacchta didi segregate dry waste in 139 categories while liquid waste is differentiated in 17 categories.