How Indore retained its top spot as the cleanest city in India

Indore became the cleanest city in India for the second time in a row, thanks to the untiring efforts of its municipal corporation and residents. Here’s a video that tells its success story.

Indore has retained its cleanest city tag in the Clean India Survey 2018, where cities were assessed on the basis of the data submitted by the civic bodies on cleanliness and sanitation, as well as feedback from the citizens.

Before it was praised for its cleanliness drive in 2017, Indore was just like any other urban city in India dealing with a mounting garbage problem. In 2016, the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) was criticised by pollution control boards, green bodies, and environmentalists for not treating its garbage properly.

This prompted the IMC to come up with various ways to tackle the problem. It deployed more than 600 workers to clean the town and started providing door-to-door waste collection services to 4,81,000 households and 1,40,000 commercial units.

The IMC imposes a penalty on those who do not keep public facilities clean.

“The corporation officials are so strict that for littering the city, they charge the residents and the shopkeepers a penalty between Rs 100 and Rs 1 lakh. This initiative of the IMC has changed the overall behaviour of the people and helped the IMC in improving municipal services," says Vipul Chafekar, a resident of Nanda Nagar in Indore.

The IMC collects 1,200 metric tonnes of dry and wet waste from the city every day, and transfers it to the trenching ground for further processing. The IMC's multiple initiatives in managing waste and the political support it received has resulted in making Indore a clean city.

Here's the video that tells us Indore's success story.

Disclaimer: This article by Makarand Purohit was first published in India Water Portal. The views expressed by the author are his/her own and do not necessarily reflect that of YourStory.