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The Hindu
4 days ago
- General
- The Hindu
Proper records help Kozhikode, Payyoli climb ranks in national cleanliness survey
The Kozhikode Corporation and Payyoli municipality have made impressive gains in the Swachh Survekshan 2024 rankings released on Thursday (July 17, 2025). The Corporation rose from 3,367 in 2023 to 70 this year, while Payyoli jumped from 3,707 to 596. Payyoli was also listed among the 20 cities awarded 'one star' in the 'Garbage Free Cities' category. 'It is not about what we did this year to improve the ranking, but about what we did not do in the previous years,' said S. Jayasree, health standing committee chairperson of the Corporation, who stressed that proper documentation and timely entries under the guidance of the Suchitwa Mission made all the difference this time. 'We have been doing our work well over the past few years, and the results were evident. However, we never gave much importance to the Swachh Survekshan Survey, and as a result, failed to present our achievements effectively during the inspections. All that changed this year,' she added. Payyoli municipal chairman V.K. Abdurahman believed that sustained efforts to maintain cleanliness in the town over the past few years had now paid off. 'We worked diligently to achieve the best possible results under the State government's 'Malinya Muktha Navakeralam' project,' he said. The municipality houses a material recovery facility (MCF) considered a model for the entire State, in addition to having a mini MCF in every division. Funds have already been earmarked for setting up more MCFs wherever needed. 'Installing awareness boards in public spaces, conducting awareness drives through mural paintings, and placing CCTV cameras at locations prone to illegal dumping helped us meet the target,' Mr. Abdurahman added. The intervention of the Suchitwa Mission in preparing local bodies for the survey has yielded results across the State, evident from the number of local bodies, including major cities, that have made significant leaps in the rankings. This is the first time any urban civic body in Kerala has come within the top 1,000 ranks since the survey began in 2016.
Hans India
5 days ago
- General
- Hans India
Swachh Survekshan feat: Hyd'bad gets 6th cleanest city tag in country
Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad has been ranked the sixth cleanest city across the country, and gets seven-star rating under the Swachh Survekshan rankings. The rankings are conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Urban Mission (SBM), which is the world's largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey. In 2023-24, the city secured the ninth position, while in 2022-23, it stood in the tenth spot. Hyderabad City has also received a seven-star rating in the Swachh Survekshan Survey for its garbage-free city status, making it the first and only city in Telangana to achieve this distinction. Hyderabad has also been re-certified as a 'Water Plus' city for the fourth consecutive year. Hyderabad was ranked sixth among the Million Plus Cities, those with a population of over 10 lakhs. In seven out of eight categories, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) received 100 per cent marks. The categories - door-to-door collection of waste, waste generation & processing, cleanliness of residential areas, cleanliness of market areas, cleanliness of water bodies, and cleanliness of public toilets. It scored 93 per cent only in category source segregation. Moreover, the Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) ranked first among all Cantonment Boards in the country and secured the 11th position in the national rankings in the medium cities' category with populations between 50,000 and 3 lakhs. Accordingly, GHMC received the 'State Level Award' as the most promising clean city of Telangana State, presented by Manohar Lal, during the 'Swachh Survekshan 2024 Awards Ceremony' at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The event was presided over by President Droupadi Murmu, and Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, who presented the awards to the cleanest cities across India. The GHMC Mayor Gadwal Vijayalakshmi extended her sincere congratulations to the GHMC Commissioner, relevant officers, staff, and sanitation workers who were instrumental in securing the award. 'This Swachh Survekshan Award has heightened our sense of responsibility. Motivated by this recognition, we will strive even harder to position Greater Hyderabad as a frontrunner in cleanliness, greenery, and health across the nation,' the Mayor said. She emphasized that this special recognition and award have been achieved thanks to the ongoing cleanliness initiatives by GHMC, the commitment of sanitation workers, and the support from the community.
New Indian Express
5 days ago
- General
- New Indian Express
Hyderabad gets its best-ever Swachh Survekshan rank; only city in Telangana with seven-star rating
HYDERABAD: Greater Hyderabad has been ranked the sixth cleanest city among more than 4,500 cities across the country, the best-ever ranking the city has received under the Swachh Survekshan (Sanitation Survey) Rankings. The rankings are conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Urban Mission (SBM), which is the world's largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey. In 2023-24, the city secured the ninth position, while in 2022-23, it stood in the tenth spot. In a significant achievement, Greater Hyderabad has also received a seven-star rating in the Swachh Survekshan Survey for its garbage-free city status, making it the first and only city in Telangana to achieve this distinction. Hyderabad has also been re-certified as a "Water Plus" city for the fourth consecutive year.
India.com
5 days ago
- Politics
- India.com
This city bags India's cleanest city for eighth time in a row, not Navi Mumbai, Noida, Chandigarh; it is...
Indore got crowned with the title of 'India's cleanest city' for the 8th time in a row in the Swachh Survekshan Awards. Indore yet again came first in the government's annual cleanliness survey and was awarded with the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 award presented by President Droupadi Murmu. The Swachh Survekshan results were declared on Thursday and the top position was followed by Surat and Navi Mumbai. Noida was also announced as the cleanest city among those with a population of 3-10 lakh. This was followed by Chandigarh and Mysore, respectively. The Award ceremony took place at an event held in New Delhi which was attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal and others while President Droupadi Murmu gave away the awards to the winners. Cleanliness Drive in Lucknow A cleanliness drive was conducted on July 10 across Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh on the occasion of the 74th birthday of Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. A cleanliness drive was also conducted by Sanitation workers and locals under the leadership of Lucknow Mayor Sushma Kharwal. According to reports by ANI, Lucknow Mayor Sushma Kharkwal said, 'Today is the birthday of Lucknow's popular parliamentarian and the country's defence minister. Today, Lucknow is participating in a mega cleanliness campaign. This is a gift from the people of Lucknow to him.' Swachh Survekshan Survey Union government's Swachh Bharat mission was launched with the aim to make a cleaner India and is considered as one of the big-ticket initiatives by the Narendra Modi. The Swachh Survekshan survey is at the very centre of this mission. This year, 78 prestigious awards were presented across 4 categories: Super Swachh League Cities Top 3 clean cities in 5 population categories Special Category: Ganga Towns, Cantonment Boards, SafaiMitra Suraksha, Mahakumbh State Level Awards – Promising clean city of State/UT. The awards spotlight the theme of reduce, reuse, and recycle according to the ministry of housing & urban affairs. In a press release, the ministry said, 'Over 3,000 assessors conducted thorough inspections in every ward across the country over a period of 45 days.'
The Hindu
01-05-2025
- General
- The Hindu
Blackspots resurface showing all is not well in solid waste management in Mangaluru
MANGALURU A roadside blackspot in front of the busy KSRTC bus stand in Mangaluru greets visitors, showcasing the sorry state of affairs in solid waste management in the coastal city. The blackspot on the corner of Bejai-Kuntikana Road in front of the bus stand now mocks Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), which once bagged a series of awards for maintaining cleanliness among urban local bodies in India. Blackspots across 60 wards of the corporation have gone up in the past one year. Ravichandra Naik, Commissioner, MCC, says, 'The civic body has identified 60 major blackspots for installing CCTV cameras to prevent people from dumping waste in public places.' Mangaluru once took pride by bagging the third rank among 476 cities in India in the Swachh Survekshan Survey of the Union Government. The civic body received 'India's best city in solid waste management' award in 2018. Mangaluru was among the 23 cities selected in the country for the 2018 national award under different categories. Later it also bagged the Green Leaf Award and Solid Waste Management Icon Award for best solid waste management (SWM). Sanitation ranking drops Glaringly, the sanitation rating of Mangaluru drastically dropped to 253rd among 446 cities in the country in the survey in 2023. Incidentally, the black spots are on the rise notwithstanding Ramakrishna Mission (mutt) of Mangaluru, on the call of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, undertaking citizen-driven Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan twice. If the first phase, the campaign was held from January 30, 2015, to 2019. The second phase went on for a year from October 1, 2023. The first phase focused on cleaning roads and the surroundings. The focus of the second phase was on visiting houses and creating awareness on the proper disposal of domestic waste by segregating. Ranjan Bellarpady, the coordinator of the mutt and the campaign, told The Hindu that the first phase of the weekly drive held on 200 Sundays covered 20 lakh man hours. 'Awareness programmes on wet waste management reached three lakh houses. In addition, cleanliness education was imparted to 25,000 school children. The mission also reached 15,000 college students through workshops,' he said. Mr. Bellarpady added, 'About 53,000 kg of waste was removed from public places in the second phase of the campaign through 12 cleanliness drives (one per month). The initiative brought together 4,426 volunteers who planted 1,400-plus saplings across the city. About 5,000 households were reached out to in the second phase educating them on waste segregation.' In spite of a number of awareness programmes conducted over the years, by the mission and other voluntary organisations prior to 2015, black spots have returned in the same places, and in new places. Segregation lags behind The Commissioner blamed the rise in black spots on people not segregating the waste as wet, dry and sanitary. 'When people did not segregate waste, the corporation workers did not lift the mixed garbage from the doorsteps. Then people dumped them in public places,' he said. 'Now we have begun imposing a penalty for non-segregation of waste, starting with hotels. It will be extended to houses and other establishments,' the Commissioner said hoping that it might help in containing black spots. Each hotel found not segregating waste was imposed a penalty of ₹5,000. The civic body has also begun distributing handbills asking people to segregate waste, he said. Mr. Bellarpady and Umanath Kotekar, general secretary of Ambamaheshwari Seva Trust, which voluntarily monitors segregation of waste in Mangaladevi, Bolar, and Hoige Bazar wards since late 2023, said that waste collecting vehicles of the corporation do not collect garbage from all areas, adding to the blackspots. Mr. Kotekar added, 'After MCC switched over from contract-based SWM system to self-managed system over six months ago, it does not have supervisors to monitor waste collection at doorstep. It has got only eight health inspectors who practically can not monitor the waste collection in all wards.' But the Commissioner maintained that the corporation has not been receiving complaints from people regarding garbage not being lifted. Not concurring with this, Mr. Bellarpady said that the office of Ramakrishna Mutt gets calls from people regarding the garbage not being lifted. 'People call the office as the mutt was actively involved in the cleanliness drive for about six years,' he said. A rare initiative Mr. Kotekar said that when the trust intervened to join hands with the MCC for better SWM, its volunteers visited 5,800 houses of about 8,000 houses (including apartments) in three wards since December 2023, creating awareness on waste segregation. Some RWAs did not allow the volunteers to visit the apartments. 'We found that about 500 houses were not segregating waste. People of those houses told us that even if they segregated waste, the corporation transported it with mixed waste. On the other hand, the corporation workers blamed people for not segregating waste. The blame game resulted in blackspots,' he said. After the intervention of the trust, all 500 houses segregate waste, he said adding that the trust randomly monitors waste segregation in those houses even now. 'Mangaladevi, Bolar, and Hoige Bazar wards are now free of blackspots to an extent of 90%,' Mr. Kotekar said adding that now the trust has extended its awareness drive to three more neighbouring wards – Port, Cantonment and Attavar. 'Field visits of our volunteers have just begun by initially approaching commercial establishments,' he said. Revanth of Kottara said that the corporation should collect the dry waste at least four days a week to prevent people from dumping them in public places. Though the corporation claims that dry waste is being collected twice a week, in reality in some places like Kottara, Urwa and Chilimbi, it is being collected only once a week. The production of dry waste is on the rise in all households due to the changing lifestyle of people and marketing of products through attractive packaging by manufacturers and outlets. Hence, the civic body should not give scope for the accumulation of dry waste in homes. In some instances, members of some voluntary organisations kept a vigil at blackspots, caught those who dumped the waste there red-handed, and returned the waste to the homes and establishments that dumped them. The aim was to discourage dumping waste in public places. Yet, the dumping continues. Helpline sought Mr. Bellarpady said that to free the city from blackspots, the corporation should open a helpline with a dedicated phone number which people can call if garbage is not collected, or if a blackspot is created. A team will have to be formed for clearing blackspots immediately. The team will have to be in touch with the councillor of respective ward, health inspector and supervisor of waste collection. Mr. Kotekar said that if the corporation involves local people in the ward level to make people understand on the need for segregation and monitors the collection seriously, creation of blackspots can be prevented. Cleared during the Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan, a major blackspot at Yekkur Junction on the National Highway 66 and such spots in other areas like in Bunder, at the entry to the Old Port, at Kodical, near the zilla panchayat office in Kottara have resurfaced, revealing that all is not well in SWM of the MCC.
