Nitin Namdev, Raipur. The Union Ministry of Forest, Environment and Water Air Change has declared the results of the Clean Air Survey-2024. In this, Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh, has been ranked 8th in the top 10 cities of the country. Raipur has got a score of 177.5. At the same time, Surat ranks first in the country.
In this survey, Raipur has made its place in the top 10 cities and earned the eighth position in the competition of 41 cities with more than 10 lakh population. The survey was conducted by the central government based on several parameters such as dust -free environment, curbing the tendency of burning of waste, disposal of demolition and effective operations of demolition residues, air quality level and effective operation of awareness activities.
So Raipur got 8th position
According to Corporation Commissioner Abinash Mishra, on the instructions of Collector and Corporation Administrator Dr. Gaurav Kumar Singh to ensure clean air quality, Birgaon and Raipur Municipal Corporation, Environment Protection Board, CSIDC, Transport, Traffic and Police on the basis of inter -departmental coordination on the instructions of Dr. Gaurav Kumar Singh The departments are working together. Dust reducing water spraying, BT and CC road construction, and to end pewing, construction from C & D processing plant and reuse the demolition residue, as well as plantation, many innovations are being focused on many innovations.
These cities included in top ten cities
Apart from this, the scope of night cleaning road cleaning has been extended to 152 km by mechanical method. Investigation of pollution vehicles has been started. Strategy based IEC activities are also being conducted for awareness programs. The corporation commissioner said that Raipur has got the benefit of all these efforts in this survey. The top-10 cities in this ranking include the names of Surat, Jabalpur, Agra, Lucknow, Kanpur, Vadodara, Indore, Bhopal, Vijayawada, Ahmedabad and Delhi.