India’s cleanest city
Impressive performance by Indore city YoY which continues to be the no.1 clean city in India as per Swachh Bharat survey. The statistics are pretty impressive. The model of turning waste into energy seems to be scalable & should be emulated by other Indian cities.
Indore is India’s Cleanest City for 5th time in a row
Year after year such work;
How Indore is able to do this continuously, for this, it has to be understood about the important steps to be taken year after year.
2017: In the year 2017, Indore started door-to-door collection for the first time. The challenge was to pick up garbage from every house. The aim was to remove or at least reduce dustbins from the streets. Indore Municipal Corporation has done this. People also supported a lot.
2018: In the year 2018, Indore won the ODF award by making the city open defecation free. Along with this, the focus was on segregation i.e. wet and dry. Separate dustbin for wet waste, separate dustbin for dry waste. The sweepers began to separate the wet and dry waste.
2019 and 2020: Zero Waste Trenching Ground was an important achievement of this year. In Indore, the mountain of 12 lakh metric tons of garbage spread in the trenching ground for many years was eliminated. In 2020, Indore Municipal Corporation generated revenue of 40 crores from garbage charges. Not only this, the municipal corporation also earned 1.5 crore annually from the raw material prepared from the waste.
People gave a lot of support: will not spread garbage, will not allow it to spread
The cleaning system of the Municipal Corporation in Indore is so systematic and fast that there is no visible dirt in the city. People also support the administration very well and do not spread garbage.
Waste management is excellent in Indore Municipal Corporation area. In many cities, you must have seen that after marriage ceremonies, meetings, rallies, leaves, dirt etc. are spread. Whereas in Indore, cleaning is done immediately after every small and big events.
The people of the city have also got into the habit of cleanliness. Most awareness is seen among the people here. People also carry dustbins in their vehicles. If a new person spreads garbage on the road there, the citizens here ask them to pick up the garbage and put it in the dustbin.
Suvrat Kumar, a social youth of Indore, says, overall understand that the citizens here neither spread garbage themselves nor allow others to spread it.
Now it depends on other cities and the people there that if a clean city like Indore is to be made, then how much work is needed for that.
