NEW DELHI: The Centre’s process of selecting clean cities needed to be changed, a green body said today, claiming that the three toppers in its latest cleanliness survey had adopted environmentally “unsustainable” waste management practices.
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) said there was an “urgent need” to change the methodology of the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ survey to encourage sustainable practices such as segregation of waste at source and recycle-and-reuse.
It asserted that the top three cities as per Swachh Survekshan 2017 — Indore, Bhopal and Vishakhapatnam — were focussing on collecting unsegregated waste and transporting it to landfills with a minimal amount of waste being processed.
Indore in Madhya Pradesh was declared the cleanest city in the country by the survey. Bhopal, also in Madhya Pradesh, occupied the second slot among 434 cities, followed by Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat.
“An analysis of the results of Swachh Survekshan, 2017 shows that the top three cities — Indore, Bhopal and Vishakhapatnam — have adopted environmentally unsustainable practices for waste management. (AGENCIES)
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