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Clean UP: 18 UP cities awarded in Swachh Survekshan

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In what comes as an encouraging development for the Yogi government, as many as 18 cities of Uttar Pradesh have been awarded for maintaining cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in ‘Swachh Survekshan’ for the year 2021.

Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and towns across India.

In all, 18 UP cities, including Varanasi, Meerut, Noida and Ghaziabad, won awards in different categories. Awards were given away to respective mayors and other officials of respective cities by Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri and Union minister of state Kaushal Kishore.

The efforts put in by the Yogi Adityanath government in ensuring a clean Uttar Pradesh ranging from constructing 2.61 crore toilets (Izzatghar) across the state under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to constructing around 69,265 community toilets and 652 pink toilets for women and girls have delivered the desired results as the state’s overall ranking has also witnessed significant improvement.

The manner in which the Yogi government converted the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan into a mass movement, has been widely appreciated by the experts. The government implemented a door-to-door garbage collection system in 11913 wards out of 12007 wards of municipal bodies to keep the streets and roads of the cities clean. The slogans of ‘Gaadi wala aaya ghar se kachra nikal’ were raised at every door by the municipal vehicles. As a result of this, Lucknow bagged awards in ‘best state capital in citizen feedback’ and ‘garbage-free cities’ (for cities with over 10 lakh population) categories in Swachh Survekshan 2021.

The government also made all the 75 districts open defecation free by constructing more than 2.61 crore toilets across the state.

In addition, Meerut got the ‘fastest moving big city’ award in the 10 to 40 lakh population category, while Ghaziabad got the ‘best big city innovation and best practices’ award. Noida got the ‘India’s cleanest medium city’ award in the 3 to 10 lakh population category.

Hapur got the ‘best city in maximum citizen participation’ award in over one lakh population category while Patiyali town in Kasganj got the ‘best city in maximum citizen participation’ award under less than one lakh population category.

Meerut Cantonment got ‘India’s cleanest cantonment award in one lakh population category while Varanasi Cantonment got the ‘best cantonment in citizen feedback’ award in over one lakh population category.

Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Noida, Jhansi also got the ‘garbage-free city’ award in different population categories.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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