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Q46. ‘Swacchh Survekshan-2018’ survey attempts to capture the progress in which of the following parameters?

1. Information, Education and Communication

2. Capacity Building

3. Sanitation related progress

4. Collection and Transportation of Municipal Solid Waste

Select the correct code:


A

(a) Only 3 and 4

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(b) Only 1, 3 and 4

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(c) Only 3

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(d) All of the above

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Solution

The correct option is D

(d) All of the above


Providing details of the Swachh Survekshan 2018, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs informed that this is the largest survey impacting more than 40 crore urban population and to ensure level playing field in similar smaller cities, Swachh Survekshan 2018 will have two categories of ranking-

1. 500 cities with more than 1 lakh population will have National Ranking

2. 3541 cities with less than 1 lakh population will have State and Regional ranking.

The survey attempts to capture the progress in following 6 broad parameters –

1. Collection and Transportation of Municipal Solid Waste: to ensure that segregated dry and wet waste is collected daily from the households and our public areas are clean.

2. Processing and Disposal of Municipal Solid Waste: to encourage cities to process their waste and wherever possible recycle the dry waste.

3. The survey attempts to capture the progress in six broad parameters, including collection and transportation of municipal solid waste, sanitation related progress, and whether cities have started campaigns promoting Swachh Survekshan , engaging citizens in waste management, maintenance of community and public toilets

4. Sanitation related progress: to verify whether city is ODF with access to toilet available for citizens. This year even all Petrol Pumps of the country are coming forward to offer their toilets as Public Toilets.

5. IEC (Information, Education and Communication): Whether cities have started campaigns promoting Swachh Survekshan, engaging citizens in waste management, maintenance of Community and Public Toilets etc.

6. Capacity Building: to assess whether officials in the ULBs were provided sufficient opportunities to attend trainings and go for exposure visits.

7. Innovation and Best Practices: This component has been introduced first time in this survey – encourage cities to come forward and share their best practices in Swachh Bharat Mission. It will help the country to learn how our cities have responded the call for Make India Clean and ODF by October.


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