How Indore turned out to be Cleanest City in India
By Siddhant Athawale, Class XI F
‘Ho Halla’ has now become the ‘Safai Anthem’ in Indore. You can’t miss hearing it when you visit the city. Sung by renowned Bollywood singer Shaan, the song has created enough euphoria for Indoreans, and it’s almost their new identity now. The increased level of awareness has brought a major turnaround. But how did it all happen?
Garbage is collected from every nook and corner of the city to make it look neat and clean. Every garbage collection vehicle is GPS enabled and every employee has to mark his/her attendance through bio-metric scanning resulting in maximum efficiency of manpower. Indore is now obsessed about cleaning itself. The bulk of cleaning in this city of thirty-five lakh people happens using a dozen jumbo cleaning machines late at night, when the city is in the lap of sleep.
Staying clean can be and should be a big political agenda for any government. Something that would have made even the Mahatma really proud of his country.
