India to make 1,000 cities 3-star garbage free by Oct 2024: Mr. Hardeep S Puri
- IBEF
- March 31, 2023
On International Zero Waste Day 2023 in Delhi, Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Mr. Hardeep S Puri announced to make 1,000 cities in India, 3-star garbage free by October 2024. The “3-star garbage free" refers to criteria that include getting rid of trash mountains and preventing untreated sewage in rivers.
The Garbage Free Cities (GFC) Star rating procedure was introduced in January 2018 to foster a spirit of competition among urban local bodies (ULBs). Indore has bagged the highest rating, 7-star garbage free.
Urban India has been Open Defecation Free (ODF), with all 4,715 ULBs entirely ODF, 3,547 ULBs ODF+ with functioning and clean community and public toilets, and 1,191 ULBs are ODF++ with complete faecal sludge management.
In India, waste processing has increased fourfold, from 17% in 2014 to 75% in 2023. This has been facilitated by 100% door-to-door waste collection in 97% of wards and source segregation of waste practised by citizens in over 90% of wards across all ULBs in the country.
Mr. Puri expressed optimism that in the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0), when India intends to become a garbage-free country, the resolve and determination displayed in attaining the SBM-U targets would be multiplied.
In order to increase public awareness of waste management in the nation, he emphasised the significance of a "Garbage Free Cities" rally.
On October 1, 2022, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi announced the commencement of Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban 2.0 with the primary goal of establishing "Garbage Free Cities" (GFC).
Disclaimer: This information has been collected through secondary research and IBEF is not responsible for any errors in the same.
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