IMPHAL, Dec 29: Manipur
Municipal Administration,
Housing & Urban Development
(MAHUD) and Forest
minister Th Shyamkumar on
Wednesday reiterated that licence
will not be issued to the
shops without dustbins, starting
from 2018.
MAHUD Minister Shyamkumar
was addressing inaugural
function of one day media
sensitization workshop on
Swachh Survekshan 2018 held
at City Convention Centre in
Imphal this morning.
“All the shops in all the Municipal
areas need to procure licence
and it will compulsory for all the
shops to use dustbins,” says
Shyamkumar. “The department
will disallow the licenses if they
fail to use dustbins.”
The workshop was organised
under the aegis of DIPR and
MAHUD. Swachh Survekshan
is a ranking exercise taken to assess
rural and urban areas for their
levels of cleanliness and active
implementation of Swachhata
mission initiatives. Imphal is taking
part among the ranking of 500
cities (with more than 1 lakh
population)of the country while
the remaining 27 towns in the
state among 3041 towns (with
less than 1 lakh population).
Cash awards for ‘Mission
Imphal Keibul’, a cleanliness
competition of the urban local
bodies was given to Municipal
Councils of Kumbi (Rs 80,000),
Nambol (Rs 50,000) and
Moirang (Rs 30,000), besides
consolation prize of Rs 10,000
each to Municipal Councils of
Bishnupur, Ningthoukhong and
Oinam. –Assam Tribune
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