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Cleaning up exercise

‘Cleanest city’ Indore earns Rs 4 crore annually through waste

ndore, which has been adjudged the cleanest city in the rank the country’s cleanest city next year. Union Housing
Icountry four times in a row, has been earning about Rs and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced
four crore annually by putting garbage to good use. results of the Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (Quarter
1 and Quarter 2) on December 31. In the two surveys
(Swachh Survekshan Leagues) carried out between April
and June and between July and September last year,
Indore emerged as the cleanest city of India
Taking the cue other cities are also following the suit.
While down south the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
has announced to clean up CBD twice a day and the Kalyan
Dombivali Municiapal Corporation in Maharashtra has paves
Dombivli road using discarded plastic The Kalyan-Dombivli
Municipal Corporation (KDMC) has made success during
a trial for using plastic in shreds in road resurfacing work
on a small stretch in Dombivali., Civic officials said that
A private company has invested Rs 30 crore under the if experiment gets successful, they can use the technique
Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode by setting up a for the resurfacing of all major asphalt roads in city.
plant to process 300 tonnes of dry waste through artificial
intelligence, told Asad Warsi, the Centre’s Swachh Bharat In a bid to keep the commercial areas of the city spick
Abhiyan’s adviser for Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC). and span, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike
With its robotic technology, the plant, spread over an area (BBMP) will double
of four acres, segregates dry waste items like plastic, its efforts to clean
glass and metal. up the Central
Business District
“As per an agreement, the firm has been paying Rs 1.51 (CBD). It will mean
crore premium from its profit to the IMC,” he said. The swe e pin g a n d
IMC has been producing compost and bio-CNG fuel from clearing garbage
the wet waste, Warsi said.“Besides, the construction and twice a day and
demolition waste is being turned into bricks, tiles and deploying more
other stuff, which fetches the civic body Rs 2.5 crore pourakarmikas
annually,” he added.The IMC has given the task of garbage and auto tippers
collection to three NGOs.In the first phase, these NGOs in these areas, to avoid black spots. BBMP has been asked
have started collecting dry waste from 22,000 households to take up sweeping in two shifts -- the regular early
by paying Rs 2.5 per kg of waste to the house owner, morning duty, and another towards the evening. Currently,
Warsi said. BBMP sweeps and collects waste in the mornings. With
Besides, these NGOs have been paying a premium to the the double shift, BBMP wants to ensure efficient Solid
IMC as per the terms and conditions on which they have Waste Management (SWM) in the city. Such an initiative
been handed over the work, he said. Nearly 1,200 tonnes was started in Gandhinagar and Chickpet wards to ensure
of waste, comprising 550 tonnes of wet waste and 650 that activities in KR Market do not affect the collection
tonnes of dry waste, was being disposed of daily in Indore, and transfer of waste in the area.
which has population of about 35 lakh. The BBMP formed a committee comprising chief engineers,

Indore took a lead in the cleanliness survey 2020 in the superintendent engineers and executive engineers from
country. The survey’s final and decisive lap started on departments like Project Central, Road Infrastructure,
Saturday and will complete this month-end, in a prelude to the SWM Joint Commissioner and others. The committee

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