Keeping in view the need of ensuring a better rank of the city in Survekashan being conducted in hundred cities across the country, SDMC is organising a day long regional workshop on Swachh Survekeshan-2017 and Municipal Solid Waste Management Rules-2016. The workshop will be attended by the experts, senior officers of the SDMC and Union UD Ministry apart from representatives of hundreds of RWAs from the localities coming under the SDMC.
Mayor Shyam Sharma will inaugurate the workshop today which will deliberate on the entire gambit of the preparations for the Survekashan which will be conducted in the localities under the jurisdiction of the SDMC from 7th to 9th January. The Mayor will exhort the RWAs to strive hard to improve the rank of the city in Survekashan; the rank will depend upon the status of sweeping, transportation of the garbage and management of all types of waste and garbage (45 per cent); the appraisal by the quality control Council of India (25 per cent) and response of the citizens (30 per cent). The ranking will be decided on the basis of score achieved out of hundred marks as stated above.
During the workshop a status update of various activities by the SDMC will be presented. Apart from this responsibilities of the SDMC in Solid Waste Management Rules-2016 will be discussed in detail. A number of case studies of 2016 waste rules will be open for minute analysis and discussion. Sharma added that the segregation strategy is crucial for bringing a remarkable improvement in the rank, hence the discussion on this issue will benefit the city. The standard operating procedure for SDMC will be scrutinised by the experts before initiating a healthy debate. The Mayor stated that the MSW Rules-2016 mandates inclusion of people in society at large to achieve the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission by 2019.