The government is going to start the work of garbage collection and its management in the next six months in 7,674 villages of 95 development blocks of the state, which are facing the problem of non-collection of garbage from homes and heaps of garbage around. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami made this announcement while launching the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva-2024’ program on the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Chief Minister said that the government has started the work of waste management in 9,000 villages of the state and the government’s target is to start the work of garbage management in 100 percent villages of the state by March 2025. Let us tell you that there are a total of 16,674 villages in the state.
Till now the facility was not available in the village
It is going to be 24 years since Uttarakhand became a state, but the villagers are still deprived of the facility of garbage collection and management in the rural areas of the state. Although garbage collection and management work is going on in all 92 urban body areas of the state, but rural areas are still untouched by it. In such a situation, the villagers either throw the garbage of their houses outside on empty plots or on the roadside or are forced to burn the garbage. Due to this, there are heaps of garbage on the roadside in rural areas.
CM Dhami made the announcement
On Tuesday, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami started the Swachhta Pakhwada in the state and talked about starting garbage collection and management work in rural areas in the next six months. In a program organized at Parade Ground in Dehradun, the Chief Minister performed puja on Vishwakarma Day and also flagged off the cross country marathon to give the message of cleanliness.
Control room also started
The Chief Minister gave the message of environmental awareness by planting saplings under the ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign in the Parade Ground and also distributed Kishori kits to the girls. The Chief Minister appreciated the steps being taken by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation for the cleanliness of the city and said that the corporation has deployed eight teams of officers in the city for complaints related to cleanliness. Along with this, a 24-hour control room has also been started for complaints. Urban Development Minister Premchand Agarwal, Cabinet Minister Ganesh Joshi, outgoing Mayor Sunil Uniyal Gama, District Panchayat President Madhu Chauhan, MLA Khajan Das, Savita Kapoor, Umesh Sharma Kau, Secretary Urban Development Shailesh Bagoli, District Magistrate Savin Bansal etc. were present in the program.
Theme ‘Swabhaav Swachhata, Sanskar Swachhata’
The Chief Minister said that Uttarakhand is moving ahead at a rapid pace in the matter of cleanliness. This is the reason why the state got the pride of being the fourth ODF (open defecation free) state of the country in the year 2017. Toilets have been constructed for five lakh 37 thousand families without toilets in the state. Apart from this, more than 2600 toilet complexes have been built and plastic waste management units have been established in 77 development blocks. The Chief Minister said that this year the government is moving ahead on the theme of ‘Swabhaav Swacchata, Sanskar Swacchata’. The Chief Minister also flagged off Swacchata Raths for various development blocks.
