Shahjahanpur, Amrit Vichar. The Municipal Corporation is preparing to get good ranking in the cleanliness survey. For this, indiscriminate publicity is being done in paper. Since February 8, about 48 lakh rupees have been burnt on publicity, but feedback has been available only by 20 thousand people. However, this feedback of 20 thousand people is also under question. Some officials say that feedback is far below the figure of 20 thousand. Even if it is considered correct, this number is very low according to the expense. Citizen feedback is very less according to the way money is being shed on publicity like water. Meanwhile, news has come that cleanliness ranking may also be released soon. Last year, 75 thousand people gave positive feedback, then All India rankings came to 181st, this time the rank can go below this. In such a situation, there is a fear that the count of Shahjahanpur Corporation should not reach the most dirty cities this time.
Under the clean survey, the ranking of municipal corporations and other bodies is released every year. In which the feedback of the townspeople matters a lot. To get positive feedback from more and more people, the work of propagating the survey is also done from cleanliness to the promotion of survey. This time this campaign was launched by Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna at Gandhi Bhavan on February 8. The time for this is fixed till 31 March. Corporation officials said that they are conducting awareness campaigns in each ward of the city for Swachh Survekshan 2024. In all 60 wards, people are being made aware to give citizen feedback under clean survey 2024 through street plays. Apart from this, people are being made aware through the mediums of Wall Petting, Nukkad drama etc.
Five thousand rupees are being paid on each drama. Apart from this, 12 lakh rupees have been spent on the head of standing, posters and banners etc. Advertisement and internet media are being resorted to. Revenue and cleaning inspectors have been targeted to take feedback from at least 250 people per day to get feedback of more and more people. Animators installed to make people aware of garbage management in wards have been given additional task of taking feedback. Nodal officers were also to be nominated by the Municipal Corporation for monitoring about clean survey activities, but so far no such arrangements have been made.
Efforts are being made to ensure good ranking in the cleanliness survey. Awareness campaigns are also being run. So far 20 thousand people have given feedback. This figure will increase further. -Saf Siddyi, District Program Officer Municipal Body.
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