Rourkela takes agency steps to raised cleanliness rating

By Express News Service
ROURKELA: The Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) is on a cleanliness overdrive to remodel the Steel City forward of the Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2023. Backed with a slew of sanitary initiatives, RMC is aiming to take a three-fold leap from its current nationwide rating of 156 within the ongoing Swachha Survekahsan, 2021 of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.  

After Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the superior sanitary administration programme final month, mechanised de-silting of drains, elimination of dry and plastic waste from roads with suction machine and cleansing of parks with leaf blowers have began within the metropolis. This aside, mechanised sweeping of roads is prone to begin in a fortnight.   

RMC sources knowledgeable that tenders are being floated for set up of 37 sensor-equipped underground waste bins at main dumping websites. In subsequent six months, 40 areas can be de-listed as slums after vital improvement and provision of fundamental facilities. The RMC has additionally roped in two non-public start-ups for processing extra moist rubbish and gainful recycling of plastic waste with assist of rag-pickers.  

It is learnt that the town’s open defecation free (ODF) rating has improved to ODF++. Now, Rourkela aspires to raised its rubbish free metropolis (GFC) rating from One Star to Five Star. The GFC rating group is prone to go to the town shortly.    

This time, the RMC hopes to succeed in inside 50-Sixtieth place within the nationwide rankings using on its seven new micro composting centres (MCCs) as final yr, incapability to course of waste value it heavy factors. Public bogs fitted with hand-dryers, sanitary pad merchandising machines and incinerators for waste pads would additionally fetch substantial marks.  

The RMC has launched a marketing campaign asking residents to vote for Rourkela and is encouraging them to assist in addressing sanitation points of their respective localities. RMC’s ministerial workers have been tasked with voluntarily taking on cleansing work to encourage the general public. 

Chief govt officer of Rourkela Smart City Limited and RMC commissioner Dibyajyoti Parida stated aside from the sanitation measures, a beautification drive is concurrently underway. He hoped that the town’s cleanliness rating would enhance considerably. 

In 2019, Rourkela was at a distant 353rd spot whereas in 2018, it was positioned at 304. Similarly, the town was ranked 168th in 2017 whereas it didn’t take part within the survey in 2017.