Pune: In a large increase of 15th place last year, Pune confirmed the fifth position among cities with more than 10 Lakh populations in the union government hygiene survey this year.
As a city company, with 1 Lakh-Plus population, Pune is ranked eighth.
Pimpri Chichwad is too improved its ranking, securing the 19th place this year due to 24 2020 in the 10 lakh-plus category.
This survey was conducted ‘Swachh Survekshan 2021’ by Union Minister of Housing and urban affairs.
Pune scored 4,900.94 points and also pocketed a sustainable big city award, while Pimpri Chinchwad scored 3.874.20 points.
A total of 48 cities were surveyed in the 10-40 population of the lakh population at various parameters, including feedback from citizens.
Mayor Murlidhar Mohol associated an increase in rankings with collective efforts by administration and citizens.
Similar efforts must continue in the future too, said Mohol, added, “The city managed to secure a better ranking when administration, and citizens, faced the challenges of Pandemi Covid-19.” More than 25 indicators divided into three parts are considered a city rating.
Some of the main indicators are separation, processing and waste disposal, in addition to sustainable sanitation.
The vote of the residents is a combination of resident feedback, involvement, experience, innovation and practices.
The city scored more than 1,540 points from 1,800 in the category of residents’ voices, while it reached 3 star rating in waste-free initiatives.
However, city-based citizens groups said that even though city rating had increased, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) faced the challenges of handling additional waste from 23 villages joining.
Vivek Velanankar from ALAG Nagrik Manch said, “The ranking must reflect on the surface of the ground.
In addition, it will remain on paper.
PMC is still not able to handle daily waste.
The waste processing unit does not function at full capacity.
PMC must conduct a detailed audit of each Unit.
Now, there is a challenge to treat waste from 23 villages join.
“Kunal Khemnar, an additional municipal commissioner at PMC, said,” Waste processing has risen and will see more improvements on the days to come.
We collected garbage from 23 The village, which was previously used to be disposed of in various locations.
Larger people in the city are asked to treat garbage waste in their place.
Segregation has also been improved.
“Nashik’s journey in Chartnashik bagged 17th place in a national cleaning survey.
The city is ranked 11th in the country in last year’s survey.
Commissioner of Nashik Body Civic Kailas Jadhav said the city could not do good in the city ranking area of trash free and citizen feedback.
“But we will improve in these two areas during Swachh Survekshan 2022 and increase our ranking to make it among the top 10 cleanest cities in this country,” he said.
Aurangabad Tariff Betterurangabad increases its national rank in a cleaning survey to position 22 among cities with more than 10 Lakh populations in India.
Last year, the city was ranked 26th.
It also accepts ‘gold nomination’, a new category that was introduced based on six selection of indicator performance criteria, including segregation waste.
(With input from tushar pawar in Nashik & Prasad Joshi in Aurangabad)
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