Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the eight edition of world’s largest urban, cleanliness survey, the Swachh Survekshan 2023 – Mera Shehar, Meri Pehchan. On June 27, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the field assessment for Swachh Survekshan. Under this drive, around 3,000 assessors will take the field for assessment from 1 July, 2023.
The assessors will study performances of 4500 cities across 46 indicators and it is expected to be completed within a month.
Originally designed as a competitive monitoring tool, Swachh Survekshan was introduced under the aegis of MoHUA in 2016, with an objective to helping cities to achieve the goal of sustainable sanitation and waste management in a fast-track competitive manner.
Swachh Survekshan has enthused cities with a healthy spirit of competitiveness to improve urban sanitation and ensure best service delivery to their citizens. It is expected to engage a whopping 10 crore citizens during this year’s assessment making it indisputably the world’s largest annual urban cleanliness survey. Conducted over four quarters, the first three quarters of assessment have already been completed successfully.
