ITANAGAR, Sep 8:Chief Municipal Executive Officer, Habung Lampung received the SKoCH Order of Merit Award during 49th SKoCH summit at New Delhi on behalf of Itanagar Municipal Council and District Administration for qualifying amongst top 50 Swacch Bharat projects in India for Management of Solid Waste in Itanagar.
The award was selected based on presentations of innovative practices in whole country by jury as well as popular vote. Itanagar Municipal Council and District administration with support of govt and active participation of councilors, NGOs and citizens had shrugged off 3rd dirtiest city tag of 2016 and ranked as 216th cleanest in 2017. With the launch of door to door collections on garbage in 2016, massive awareness programme was organised in every ward, colony etc through councillors and NGOs and various citizens groups.
Deputy Commissioner, Prince Dhawan has appealed the citizens of Capital Complex to continue providing their support in keeping the city clean. He further informed that revamped system of door to door collection of garbage in all 30 wards will be shortly implemented with end to end solutions for garbage management and disposal with segregation at sources.