Meghalaya: PHE Minister to make Shillong cleanest city in India
While speaking at the state-level workshop on Swachh Survekchan Grameen on Wednesday, the minister urged the respective departments to work towards making Shillong a garbage and litter-free city.
Public Health Engineering (PHE) Minister Renikton Lyngdoh Tongkhar has urged officers in the department to take up the “challenge” to make Shillong the cleanest city in the country, replacing Indore from the top spot of being the cleanest cities in India.
While speaking at the state-level workshop on Swachh Survekchan Grameen on Wednesday, the minister urged the respective departments to work towards making Shillong a garbage and litter-free city.
"Our city should be ranked number one in the country in terms of cleanliness. When Indore can achieve the feat, why not Shillong? I want to put a challenge before the officers of the department to work towards the objective," Lyngdoh said.
Stressing on the need to reduce plastic and other wastes, the minister, speaking at the workshop, laid stress on environmental sustainability for a cleaner and greener city.
When asked about the unhygienic and filthy places in and around Shillong, Tongkhar said that multiple approaches are required to ensure these places are clean.
As for villages that face sanitation issues despite being declared Open Defecation Free (ODF), he said that the objective of ODF Plus is to check if the infrastructure created is useful or not.
Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in villages, cities and towns across India to boost the Open Defecation Free (ODF) Plus status for villages. It was launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The same survey has ranked Indore as the cleanest city in India for four years in a row.
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