The winner will be awarded by the mayor. BMC's rank in the Cleanliness Survey 2017 plummeted to 29 from 10 in 2016
To improve its rank in the Cleanliness Survey 2018, the BMC has decided to hold cleanliness competitions among municipal establishments such as schools, ward offices, hospitals and citizen facility centres among others. The winner will be awarded by the mayor. BMC's rank in the Cleanliness Survey 2017 plummeted to 29 from 10 in 2016.
"We are taking several measures to improve our ranking in the national survey," said Vijay Singhal, additional municipal commissioner, BMC. "Every ward office will select one premise from each of the categories, that includes schools and hospitals, which are the cleanest," added Singhal.
"We want to involve every resident in the city in our cleanliness efforts. The process will become easier through such a competition," said a civic official attached to the 2018 survey.
The BMC has also been carrying out surveys to promote and encourage cleanliness among citizens. The civic body has formed 24 teams that will visit all the wards across the city to create awareness about the new Swachhata-MoHUA app, encourage citizens to download it and guide them on the steps to register their area's garbage-related complaints from their phones. The teams will also solicit feedback from citizens on their area's cleanliness situation. "In the past two weeks, over 30,000 residents have downloaded the app and are submitting their complaints," added the official.
As per the central government Cleanliness Survey, the Swachhata-MoHUA app must be downloaded by at least 2 per cent of the population to get marks in the survey. "In Cleanliness Survey 2016, only 6,000 residents had downloaded the app," said the official. In BMC's jurisdiction, around 2.5 lakh citizens need to download the app to get marks in the Cleanliness Survey 2018.
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