Swachch Gujarat - Nirmal Gujarat
Gujarat Series -8
Swachch Gujarat – Nirmal Gujarat
At the risk of sounding too eulogistic, it should be conceded that the State of Gujarat has a very distinctive methodology for bringing focus on burning issues. Every year is celebrated in the State as a theme year. This is the initiative of Narendra Modi.
The success of the “theme year” celebrations lies in the tremendous detailing of every aspect of the execution, i.e., from planning the strategy, to implementation, role defining, to regular tracking and monitoring by the concerned department/s and reporting up to the highest levels.
Recognizing the urgent need to address the issues related to cleanliness and sustainability aspects of environment, the state government declared “Clean Gujarat” or “Nirmal Gujarat” (in local parlance) as the theme for the year – 2007-2008. And, to show how serious the Government was in ensuring success in the area, a SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) was created with the sole purpose of strategizing, facilitating the implementation of the strategies for cleaning and close monitoring of the performance.
This SPV is called the “Nirmal Gujarat Mission (NGM).
“Nirmal Gujarat” is about managing waste related with industries, transportation, hospitals, sanitation, solid waste disposal and tourism. It is also protecting water bodies, trees, green spaces and heritage buildings. It envisages capacity building in the management of waste generated in airports and railway stations, fairs and temples, office building, hospitals, roadside eateries, public toilets, streets, community halls, schools, land fill sites, vegetable markets and parking spaces.
It is also about monitoring short and long term plans, goals and targets, penalties, evaluation criteria and competitions.
It is an attempt on a complete behavioural change through communication on environmental consciousness, awareness, capacity building, participation, best practices and guidelines. It involves senior citizens, NGOs, institutions, communities, business groups, student groups and women's groups.
Nirmal Gujarat is also about implementing strategies, innovations, recycling and cleaner-greener technologies, rules and regulations, incentives, administrative charges, and special campaigns. It is an ecofriendly way of living and a completed behavioural change to a green way.
The main objective of Nirmal Gujarat, was to generate consciousness among the customers and users, regarding the garbage [human, industrial, domestic as well as animal feces] harming the environment.
When the Mission embarked upon the task of delineating scope of the Nirmal Gujarat work, it appeared never-ending and an illustrative list was initially readied.
The strategy included:
• • Management of waste- related to solid waste disposal, sanitation, hospitals, industries, biomedical waste, transportation, and landfill sites, etc.
• Regulate everyday waste- generated in marketplaces, Fairs, temples, railway stations, homes, airports, hotels, motels, schools, shopping malls, farmyards, cattle waste, etc.
• Protect– Heritage buildings’, soil, greenery, biodiversity, water bodies, etc.
• Build capacities and generate awareness of– environment, best practices, law, health and hygiene issues, etc.
• Involve– Senior citizens, women’s groups, students, institutions, NGO’s, Media, government departments, employees, etc.
• Implement through –championing innovations, practices that have worked, recycling, adoption of cleaner technologies (carbon trading), incentives in terms of cash awards, levy administrative charges, issue consonant guidelines by departments, etc.
• Special focus is on peoples’ participation and setting up sustainable systems. The Sanitation of slums and tourist sites also figures prominently in the priorities.
The scope of Nirmal Gujarat operations slowly unfolded to a convergence of all cleanliness, environmental and public health activities in twenty five departments of the government.
Tremendous details on every aspect of the execution have gone into making the Nirmal Gujarat, from strategic planning, defining the roles of twenty five different departments, setting a three year normative goals, implementing, systematizing, monitoring and reporting to the highest levels.
Nirmal Gujarat is unique and holistic by way of its innovation in converging intersectoral activities of cleanliness, environmental and public health issues and covering its activities in the urban, rural and tribal areas under one umbrella.
The aid programmes by citizens include seminars on the subject by Sakhi Mandals[women group], senior citizens, students, school and other non govt. organizations.
Under the aegis of Nirmal Gujarat, an ARC [Awareness and Responsibility Commission] has been incorporated. The motive of this mission, is to inspire people to lead unsoiled and healthy life.
The Mission co-ordinator co-ordinates 25 state departments, non-govt. organizations, groups and citizens..
Various departments of the Gujarat Govt. have incurred different schemes under the Nirmal Gujarat yojana.
1. Urban Devlopment:
a. Collection of 100% garbage from residence, in 35 municipalities.
b. 96 vermi-composting units active,
c. Gujarat, the pioneering state to do understanding with World Bank, regarding Carbon Trading.
d. By December 2007, land filling to be conducted in scientific manner.
e. In the municipal offices, for environment betterment, 3,61,860 kg. junk disposed off.
2. Road and Buildings:
a. Removal of unauthorized structures spread over 1004 km.
b. Removal of unauthorized junk, from the main State highways and district highways.
c. Removal of garbage from 425 terraces, along side of the highways.
3. Child and Women Welfare:
a. Health food and child care, to receive primary attention.
b. In rural area, conducting healthy baby competition.
4. Water supply:
a. 9000 villages trained for water detection.
b. 4800 villages supplied with Cloroscope, for water detection.
c. Detection of water quality for 6000 villages.
5. Forest and Environment:
a. Controlling pollution, Garbage re-cycling plants and Surat’s unsafe garbage re-cycling plants and its keep-up.
b. With the aid from the industrial houses, tree plantation on road sides was started. Under the Veeranjali Forest programme, in August 2007, alone about 1,85,70,000 trees were planted around the state.
c. The usage of plastic, below 20 microns was banned.
6. Health:
The hospital and health related residues were intensively cleaned.
7. Panchayat and Rural:
a. About 1.2 million public toilets were built, by 2010.
b. About 12,689 [94.94% of the total estimation] villages were put on chlorination and a permanent plan was executed for the same.
Clean village, healthy village scheme
A new scheme has been introduced in 2007-08 to ensure that village is properly cleaned, there may arise good spirit on cleanliness, level of cleaning as well as level of rural life may go high. Consequently financial assistance is given for neatness and cleanliness, which can be used for preservation of cleanliness and to purchase sanitation implements. Inspired by this, the gram panchayat is encouraged to keep his village neat and clean.
Under ‘Nirmal Gujarat’ every village is given certain targets:
• Gram panchayat should spray medicines regularly, in dirty place, public gutter lines and roads.
• Dung-hills should be shifted to proper places and the place should be decide outside the village,
• Scavenging tax should be introduced in gram panchayat and village sanitation arrangement should be intensified.
• Toilets should be constructed in the local self governments, schools, panchayat ghar, anganwadi, primary health centers etc.
• Slogans/posters of ‘Nirmal gujarat’ should be pasted ate public places in the village.
• Arrangement for individual and community toilets should be made.
• Total sanitation campaign should be organized in village areas.
• Maintenance of animals should be ensured at a proper distance from residential places.
• State govt. shall allocate the amount equal to collection of scavenging tax by the village as incentive grant and the eligible village shall get it at 110%.
Thus, The Nirmal Gujarat, yojna has truly brought “nirmal” [peaceful] atmosphere in Gujarat and has realized the dream cherished by Mahatma Gandhi, about making the cleanliness, the motto among people.
Gandhiji believed that “Cleanliness is Godliness” and today, under the able leadership of Shri Narendra Modi, the citizens of the state has not only progressed economically and industrially, but their living standards have considerably risen due to an innovative and inspiring leader.
- Dayanand Nene
Swachch Gujarat – Nirmal Gujarat
At the risk of sounding too eulogistic, it should be conceded that the State of Gujarat has a very distinctive methodology for bringing focus on burning issues. Every year is celebrated in the State as a theme year. This is the initiative of Narendra Modi.
The success of the “theme year” celebrations lies in the tremendous detailing of every aspect of the execution, i.e., from planning the strategy, to implementation, role defining, to regular tracking and monitoring by the concerned department/s and reporting up to the highest levels.
Recognizing the urgent need to address the issues related to cleanliness and sustainability aspects of environment, the state government declared “Clean Gujarat” or “Nirmal Gujarat” (in local parlance) as the theme for the year – 2007-2008. And, to show how serious the Government was in ensuring success in the area, a SPV (Special Purpose Vehicle) was created with the sole purpose of strategizing, facilitating the implementation of the strategies for cleaning and close monitoring of the performance.
This SPV is called the “Nirmal Gujarat Mission (NGM).
“Nirmal Gujarat” is about managing waste related with industries, transportation, hospitals, sanitation, solid waste disposal and tourism. It is also protecting water bodies, trees, green spaces and heritage buildings. It envisages capacity building in the management of waste generated in airports and railway stations, fairs and temples, office building, hospitals, roadside eateries, public toilets, streets, community halls, schools, land fill sites, vegetable markets and parking spaces.
It is also about monitoring short and long term plans, goals and targets, penalties, evaluation criteria and competitions.
It is an attempt on a complete behavioural change through communication on environmental consciousness, awareness, capacity building, participation, best practices and guidelines. It involves senior citizens, NGOs, institutions, communities, business groups, student groups and women's groups.
Nirmal Gujarat is also about implementing strategies, innovations, recycling and cleaner-greener technologies, rules and regulations, incentives, administrative charges, and special campaigns. It is an ecofriendly way of living and a completed behavioural change to a green way.
The main objective of Nirmal Gujarat, was to generate consciousness among the customers and users, regarding the garbage [human, industrial, domestic as well as animal feces] harming the environment.
When the Mission embarked upon the task of delineating scope of the Nirmal Gujarat work, it appeared never-ending and an illustrative list was initially readied.
The strategy included:
• • Management of waste- related to solid waste disposal, sanitation, hospitals, industries, biomedical waste, transportation, and landfill sites, etc.
• Regulate everyday waste- generated in marketplaces, Fairs, temples, railway stations, homes, airports, hotels, motels, schools, shopping malls, farmyards, cattle waste, etc.
• Protect– Heritage buildings’, soil, greenery, biodiversity, water bodies, etc.
• Build capacities and generate awareness of– environment, best practices, law, health and hygiene issues, etc.
• Involve– Senior citizens, women’s groups, students, institutions, NGO’s, Media, government departments, employees, etc.
• Implement through –championing innovations, practices that have worked, recycling, adoption of cleaner technologies (carbon trading), incentives in terms of cash awards, levy administrative charges, issue consonant guidelines by departments, etc.
• Special focus is on peoples’ participation and setting up sustainable systems. The Sanitation of slums and tourist sites also figures prominently in the priorities.
The scope of Nirmal Gujarat operations slowly unfolded to a convergence of all cleanliness, environmental and public health activities in twenty five departments of the government.
Tremendous details on every aspect of the execution have gone into making the Nirmal Gujarat, from strategic planning, defining the roles of twenty five different departments, setting a three year normative goals, implementing, systematizing, monitoring and reporting to the highest levels.
Nirmal Gujarat is unique and holistic by way of its innovation in converging intersectoral activities of cleanliness, environmental and public health issues and covering its activities in the urban, rural and tribal areas under one umbrella.
The aid programmes by citizens include seminars on the subject by Sakhi Mandals[women group], senior citizens, students, school and other non govt. organizations.
Under the aegis of Nirmal Gujarat, an ARC [Awareness and Responsibility Commission] has been incorporated. The motive of this mission, is to inspire people to lead unsoiled and healthy life.
The Mission co-ordinator co-ordinates 25 state departments, non-govt. organizations, groups and citizens..
Various departments of the Gujarat Govt. have incurred different schemes under the Nirmal Gujarat yojana.
1. Urban Devlopment:
a. Collection of 100% garbage from residence, in 35 municipalities.
b. 96 vermi-composting units active,
c. Gujarat, the pioneering state to do understanding with World Bank, regarding Carbon Trading.
d. By December 2007, land filling to be conducted in scientific manner.
e. In the municipal offices, for environment betterment, 3,61,860 kg. junk disposed off.
2. Road and Buildings:
a. Removal of unauthorized structures spread over 1004 km.
b. Removal of unauthorized junk, from the main State highways and district highways.
c. Removal of garbage from 425 terraces, along side of the highways.
3. Child and Women Welfare:
a. Health food and child care, to receive primary attention.
b. In rural area, conducting healthy baby competition.
4. Water supply:
a. 9000 villages trained for water detection.
b. 4800 villages supplied with Cloroscope, for water detection.
c. Detection of water quality for 6000 villages.
5. Forest and Environment:
a. Controlling pollution, Garbage re-cycling plants and Surat’s unsafe garbage re-cycling plants and its keep-up.
b. With the aid from the industrial houses, tree plantation on road sides was started. Under the Veeranjali Forest programme, in August 2007, alone about 1,85,70,000 trees were planted around the state.
c. The usage of plastic, below 20 microns was banned.
6. Health:
The hospital and health related residues were intensively cleaned.
7. Panchayat and Rural:
a. About 1.2 million public toilets were built, by 2010.
b. About 12,689 [94.94% of the total estimation] villages were put on chlorination and a permanent plan was executed for the same.
Clean village, healthy village scheme
A new scheme has been introduced in 2007-08 to ensure that village is properly cleaned, there may arise good spirit on cleanliness, level of cleaning as well as level of rural life may go high. Consequently financial assistance is given for neatness and cleanliness, which can be used for preservation of cleanliness and to purchase sanitation implements. Inspired by this, the gram panchayat is encouraged to keep his village neat and clean.
Under ‘Nirmal Gujarat’ every village is given certain targets:
• Gram panchayat should spray medicines regularly, in dirty place, public gutter lines and roads.
• Dung-hills should be shifted to proper places and the place should be decide outside the village,
• Scavenging tax should be introduced in gram panchayat and village sanitation arrangement should be intensified.
• Toilets should be constructed in the local self governments, schools, panchayat ghar, anganwadi, primary health centers etc.
• Slogans/posters of ‘Nirmal gujarat’ should be pasted ate public places in the village.
• Arrangement for individual and community toilets should be made.
• Total sanitation campaign should be organized in village areas.
• Maintenance of animals should be ensured at a proper distance from residential places.
• State govt. shall allocate the amount equal to collection of scavenging tax by the village as incentive grant and the eligible village shall get it at 110%.
Thus, The Nirmal Gujarat, yojna has truly brought “nirmal” [peaceful] atmosphere in Gujarat and has realized the dream cherished by Mahatma Gandhi, about making the cleanliness, the motto among people.
Gandhiji believed that “Cleanliness is Godliness” and today, under the able leadership of Shri Narendra Modi, the citizens of the state has not only progressed economically and industrially, but their living standards have considerably risen due to an innovative and inspiring leader.
- Dayanand Nene
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