U’khand to have solid waste management facility in all villages by March 2025
Tuesday, 17 SEPTEMBER 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has said that the State government has set a target to start solid waste management facilities in all the villages of Uttarakhand by March 2025. At present solid and liquid waste management works have been completed in 9,000 villages.
The CM participated in the ‘Swacchata Hi Seva-2024’ programme at Parade Ground in Dehradun on Tuesday. He also flagged off a cross country marathon and administered the oath of cleanliness to the participants on the occasion. The CM also performed Vishwakarma Puja and distributed Kishori Kits to the girls.
Greeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, the CM said that PM’s awareness, dedication and leadership towards cleanliness inspires all of us. He said that the State government is starting a cleanliness fortnight on PM’s birthday and it will end on October 2. The CM said that in the last ten years, crores of toilets have been built across the country, and facilities necessary for waste management have been set up. The awareness regarding cleanliness has increased among the common people.
Dhami said that Uttarakhand has got the distinction of being the fourth Open Defecation Free (ODF) state of the country in the year 2017. He claimed that so far, more than 5. 37 lakh families in the state have been provided with toilets. Dhami said that more than 2,600 sanitation complexes have been constructed and plastic waste management units have been established in 77 development blocks.
Complimenting the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MDC) in the field of cleanliness, the CM said that it has set up a cleanliness control room to resolve cleanliness related problems of the general public. The MCD has set up eight teams to ensure cleanliness and monitoring through CCTV cameras is also being made.
The CM said Dehradun has also been included in the five best cities of the country under the National Clean Air Programme by the Ministry of Environment, Government of India. He said that the theme of this year’s cleanliness fortnight has been kept as ‘Swabhav Swacchata and Sanskar Swacchata’. The message is that we all have to move forward together so that cleanliness is inculcated in the nature and culture of every person, he said. The Urban development minister Premchand Aggarwal said that the State will become clean on the day cleanliness becomes a part of our habit. The CM also flagged off Swachhta Raths for different development blocks on the occasion.
Cabinet ministers Ganesh Joshi and Saurabh Bahuguna, district Panchayat president Madhu Chauhan, MLAs Khajan Das, Savita Kapoor and Umesh Sharma Kau were present on this occasion.
