South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has improved its ranking from 204 to 32 in Swachchhta Ranking this year. While east and north Delhi Corporations have secured 341 and 206 place.
SDMC Commissioner Dr Puneet Kumar Goel stated that they aimed to find place in the first 25 ranks hence, constituted dedicated teams to accomplish the specific goals. He added that weekly review meetings helped in accelerating the pace of work by continuously motivating the team members to translate swachhata initiatives into reality. Though the task was much daunting, keeping in view the demographic situations and fast increasing requirements and population, our coordinated and effective efforts helped us in marching ahead.
Dr Goel described this wonderful achievement as a victory of the dedicated team being inspired on day to day basis to bring a turnaround which could make all of us winner in the real sense. Dr. Goel stated that SDMC has been able to score 833 points in service level progress, 987 in direct observation, 1209 in Citizen Feedback and Swachhata App and overall score of 1209 and SDMC is the only civic body in mega cities to find a coveted ranking. He congratulated his team members and exhorted them do much better for the next survey to become better than the best. Dr. Goel also stated that our efforts in the construction of 164 Community toilets and 34 public toilets, construction of 369 Indian household toilets, ICT based monitoring of 400 CT/PTs, providing service of toilets in the hotels and restaurants to the women and children for free in the major markets, free toilet facility in installation of 5000 twin toilets to promote segregation of the waste, mobilisation of the school children, RWAs and Market associations in disseminating the message of swachhata, engagement of the brand ambassadors, mechanization of collection and transportation of the garbage, special drives for ensuring ODF status for SDMC at the earliest, mobilising 3037 waste pickers and integrate them with the current system to put an end to the visibility of the garbage, initiate night sweeping in 277 markets, 55 % waste generated being processed, exhorting the big hotels to install their own system for recycling of the used water for using the same for irrigation in the parks, making all hotels agreeable to process their bulk waste in a scientific manner, use of dry leaves for composting in 6820 parks and so on proved to be game changers in our race for achieving the best in the survey.