Plan to make cities and towns garbage free under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0: Hardeep Singh Puri

 Mr Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs, and Petroleum and Natural Gas, Govt of India today said that India has witnessed a transformative change in sanitation since 2014. “Under the leadership of Hon’ble Prime Minister, cleanliness has become a foundational tenet in not just every government scheme but also in the way of citizens lives,” he added.

 

Addressing the 6th edition of ISC-FICCI Sanitation Awards and India Sanitation Conclave’, Mr Puri said that the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)-Urban was the first large scale program to include the principle of ‘Jan Bhagidari’ thereby transforming a government scheme into a national ‘Jan andolan’. He added that today the social movement that the SBM initiated continues to grow and every other local body in the country has been declared as Open Defecation Free. “Over 96 per cent of the wards have attained a 100 per cent door-to-door collection of solid waste and over 88 per cent of the wards have also achieved 100 per cent source segregation of waste. Soon, we will not just reach the target of 100 per cent solid waste management but also manage legacy waste in our urban areas. It means, our next target is to make our cities and towns garbage free in the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0,” added Mr Puri.