Good news for Goa! Panaji clinches THIS big award, Sawant government says…

New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu presented the ‘Swachh Sheher’ award to Panaji at a characteristic organised by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs in New Delhi. Panaji stood first amongst small cities within the country with a inhabitants of 20,000 to 50,000. The award was as soon as presented by President Droupadi Murmu to Goa’s Metropolis Construction Minister Vishwajit Rane, alongside with CCP Mayor Rohit
Monserrate and Commissioner Clen Madeira, who current it on behalf of the metropolis.

Sanquelim featured within the checklist of small towns that demonstrate promise in being bright, bagging the ninth space at the all-India level and 2d amongst all municipalities in Goa. Each and every the awards were got by urban progress minister Vishwajit Rane.

Here is the fleshy checklist: Swachh Shehar in 5 Inhabitants Categories

Bigger than 10 Lakh Inhabitants

• AHMEDABAD (Gujarat)

• BHOPAL (MP)
• LUCKNOW (UP)

3-10 Lakh Inhabitants

• MIRA-BHAYANDAR (Maharashtra)
• BILASPUR (Chhattisgarh)
• JAMSHEDPUR (Jharkhand)

50,000-3 Lakh Inhabitants

• DEWAS (Madhya Pradesh)
• KARHAD (Maharashtra)
• KARNAL (Haryana)

20,000- 50,000 Inhabitants

• PANAJI (Goa)
• ASKA (Odisha)
• KUMHARI (Chhattisgarh)

Series of Reforms:

You'll want to display that Panaji has passed through a series of structured reforms in spoil management, public sanitation, and civic infrastructure, over the last two years.

Talking at the ceremony, Rane termed the award a “moment of immense pleasure” for Goa, attributing the success to sustained groundwork love door-to-door spoil series, Garbage-Free Metropolis certification, and scientific spoil processing.

Greatly, below Rane’s leadership, Panaji has been specializing in long-term cleanliness requirements moderately than advert-hoc bright-up drives. Officials impress systematic spoil segregation enforcement and the frenzy for decentralised spoil medication as key contributors.

Rane points Commentary:

“Here is no longer good a trophy. It's proof that constant governance and citizen participation can get a distinction,” Rane said in an announcement, thanking Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for his make stronger and Mayor
Monserrate for guaranteeing on-flooring implementation.

Observers display that Panaji’s achievement additionally reflects a shift in urban governance priorities in Goa, shifting previous tourism-centric narratives in direction of day to day quality of lifestyles points.

With this recognition, the point of hobby now turns to sustaining these benchmarks. As Rane keep it, “We transfer forward with renewed approach to map a sustainable and Swachh Goa, aligned with the vision of a Viksit Bharat.”

Indore: Cleanest metropolis in India

Nationally, Indore, Surat, and Navi Mumbai entered the premier Orderly Swachh League, with Indore
continuing its reign because the cleanest metropolis within the country. The new abilities of bright cities were Ahmedabad, Bhopal, and Lucknow, which emerged because the head ‘Swachh Shehar’ or bright cities.