Mangaluru
Despite holding several campaigns, the Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC)  has presented a poor show in the Swachh Survekshan 2023 with a steady decline in the ranking at the National level. The city, which was ranked 63 in the Swachh Survekshan 2017, 52nd in 2018, 165 in 2019, 192 in 2021 and 146 in 2022, has slipped to 253rd rank in 2023.
While the urban local body could bag 253rd rank out of 446 cities across the Nation, it has been ranked nine out of 25 cities in Karnataka.
Swachh Survekshan, conducted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) since 2016, is the world’s largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey. It has been instrumental in fostering a spirit of healthy competition among towns and cities to improve their service delivery to citizens and towards creating cleaner cities.
As per the city factsheet of the MoHUA, MCC with 60 wards and a population of 4,88,968 (as per the 2011 census) has received a citizen voice rating of 1,192.4.
Mayor Sudheer Shetty told that the new waste management programme introduced by the MCC on its own recently will help the city to improve its national ranking in future. “All vehicles that transport waste from the city are equipped with GPS so that the officials may monitor the process from the command and control centre in the MCC. Further, the new QR code system for waste collection also helps the city corporation to track door-to-door waste collection effectively. We have plans to give more emphasis to waste segregation and a plan is being prepared to manage dry waste effectively through an agency, the Mayor said.
