NMC apathy ensures city slides to 506th spot on Swachh App

Nagpur | Thursday | 15th November, 2018

Summary:

The performance report in Union government’s Swachhata App and Swachh City ranking dashboard give city a disappointing 506th spot among 4,000-odd cities.Mul town in Chandrapur district has topped Swachhata App rankings this year. Through the Swachhata app, so far the civic body has received only 840 responses from the citizens. Transfer of then municipal commissioner Ashwin Mudgal has badly affected the progress of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, she said, adding: “Nagpur’s position was never so low. Uphill task ahead for Swachh Survekshan 2019,” she said.Mayor Nanda Jichkar said with new municipal commissioner Abhijeet Bangar all set to join, we would see an improvement in city’s ranking. Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s efforts to improve its rank in the ongoing Swachh Survekshan seem to have taken a severe beating given the steady drop in civic body’s popularity..