{"id":39047,"date":"2024-01-12T04:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=39047"},"modified":"2025-04-24T01:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:33:58","slug":"ssa-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ssa-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Why in news?<\/li>\n<li>What is Swachh Survekshan?<\/li>\n<li>What are the objectives of Swachh Survekshan?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Swachh Survekshan 2023<\/li>\n<li>Performance of cities in Swachh Surveskshan 2023<\/li>\n<li>Case study of Indore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Why in news?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Surat in Gujarat and Indore in Madhya Pradesh were jointly declared cleanest cities of the country at the annual clean city awards 2023 of the Union Urban Affairs Ministry.<\/li>\n<li>This was for the seventh year in a row that Indore has been ranked as the cleanest city in India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Swachh Survekshan<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and towns across India, launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (specifically under SBA-Urban).<\/li>\n<li>It was launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) with Quality Council of India (QCI) as its implementation partner.\n<ul>\n<li>The SBA was launched (on 2nd October 2014) <u>to make India clean and free of open defecation <\/u>by 2nd October 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The SBA was split into two &#8211; rural (SBA-Gramin, monitored by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation under the Ministry of Jal Shakti) and urban (SBA-Urban, overseen by the MoHUA).<\/li>\n<li>SBM-U 2.0 was recently launched on 1st October, 2021, focused on ensuring complete access to sanitation facilities for all.\n<ul>\n<li>The vision of a Garbage Free India is an initiative under SBM-U 2.0.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The first survey was undertaken in 2016 (covering 73 cities), which had grown to cover 4242 (by the 2020 survey).\n<ul>\n<li>The methodology for measuring cleanliness rests on two main criteria \u2013 <u>citizen feedback and field assessment<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Objectives of Swachh Survekshan<\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2024\/1\/12\/10\/21\/6\/65a0c53a0c41e105ca24603e_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Swachh Survekshan 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The President Droupadi Murmu conferred Swachh Survekshan awards 2023 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi hosted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).<\/li>\n<li>The theme for the year 2023 was -\u201cWaste to Wealth\u201d.\n<ul>\n<li>For 2024, the theme is \u201cReduce, Reuse and Recycle\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Performance of cities in Swachh Surveskshan 2023<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2024\/1\/12\/10\/17\/53\/65a0c4790c41e105e5c2f143_OI.PNG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The Mhow Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh was adjudged the cleanest cantonment board.<\/li>\n<li>Varanasi and Prayagraj, both in Uttar Pradesh, won the <u>top two awards amongst the cleanest Ganga towns<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Chandigarh walked away with the award for the <u>Best Safaimitra Surakshit Sheher (safest city for sanitation workers)<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Twenty zonal awards were bestowed upon medium and small cities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Case study of Indore<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When the Awards first began in 2016, Indore ranked at number 25. However, the city leapfrogged in the rankings in a year and has maintained its top position since then.<\/li>\n<li>Indore targeted the various indicators mapped in the survey early on.<\/li>\n<li>A slew of measures included changes to the sanitation and waste collection system, as well as popularising these initiatives among citizens to build better habits around sanitation.<\/li>\n<li>Segregation and disposal of waste\n<ul>\n<li>Terminating the private contract given for the collection and disposal of solid waste, Nagar Nigam took on this work and drew new strategies.<\/li>\n<li>The routes of municipality garbage disposal vehicles were changed such that they directly collected waste \u2014 dry and wet separated \u2014 from the households.\n<ul>\n<li>In some instances, corporation workers refused to collect households\u2019 garbage bags unless they had been segregated.<\/li>\n<li>The wet waste was entirely converted into compost and sold by Indore municipality.<\/li>\n<li>A new treatment plant was set up in 2016 at Devguradiya to tackle dry waste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>NGOs were also involved and went door-to-door to <u>make people aware of handing over their garbage directly to the municipality vehicles<\/u>, for a monthly charge for each household.<\/li>\n<li>Indore also addressed the issue of legacy waste by clearing and treating of nearly 13 lakh metric tonnes of waste at the Devguradiya ground in just about six months.\n<ul>\n<li>For a five-star rating in Swachh Bharat, one of the criteria is that 75 per cent of the waste be treated at the dumping site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Installing new toilets, dustbins\n<ul>\n<li>The NGOs also did the groundwork for identifying areas in the city in need of urinals and toilets to tackle the challenge of open defecation.<\/li>\n<li>Around 1,000 free dustbins were distributed to vehicle owners to encourage them to not throw waste out of windows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Building habits among citizens\n<ul>\n<li>Public officials held multiple meetings with citizens and administered the oath of cleanliness to lakhs of people.<\/li>\n<li>Indore Municipality also issued spot fines from Rs 250 to Rs 500 against people spitting on roads, urinating in the open, or littering.<\/li>\n<li>In order to give a message to habitual offenders, public shaming was used as a tool for deterrent.\n<ul>\n<li>Municipalities started publishing the names of such offenders in newspapers and broadcasting them over radio.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM-U) 2.0?<\/h3>\n<p>Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM-U) 2.0 is a five-year program that began on October 1, 2021. The program&#8217;s goal is to make all cities garbage-free by 2026. SBM-U 2.0 is a continuation of the first phase of SBM-U, which was announced in the 2021-2022 budget. The program&#8217;s focus is to sustain and accelerate the progress made in sanitation and solid waste management.<\/p>\n<h3>Q2)\u00a0What is Quality Council of India (QCI)?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>The Quality Council of India (QCI) is an independent autonomous body of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. It was established in 1996 as a national body for accreditation. QCI&#8217;s mandate is to lead a nationwide quality movement in India through its various boards.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/swachh-survekshan-awards-2023-indore-surat-cleanest-cities-in-india\/article67729762.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023 | Surat, Indore are the cleanest cities<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1995159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PIB<\/u><\/a><u> | <\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/indore-india-cleanest-city-reason-9105288\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities across India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}