Coimbatore, known for its famed cleanliness has jumped a few notches up to emerge as the 16th cleanest city in the nation in the recent Swachh Survekshan 2017 survey. Coimbatore has scored 1650 points against the previous year's 1361.
Indeed the city has jumped 180 places to emerge as one of the top cities in cleanliness quotient. Coimbatore and Tiruchy are the only two cities which have emerged in the top twenty ranking in Tamilnadu, in the recent survey in which 500 cities across the nation were graded and ranked on four parameters including citizen feedback, onsite observation, open defecation free toilets and capacity building measures.
"The moment is surely one for celebration and it will motivate the denizens to achieve top ranking in the years to come," said Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Commissioner K. Vijayakarthikeyan. Thanking city denizens and all the stakeholders who have helped achieve this milestone Vijayakarthikeyan said in his thanksgiving message. “ My heartfelt thanks to each and everyone involved in the Swachh Survekshan work. I'm sure we wouldn't have achieved this result without the support of all of you. Coimbatore has achieved this by scoring 1650/2000 (a jump of 289 marks in a year)” Vijayakarthikeyan said.
The Commissioner also exhorted the public to continue to work towards achieving better ranking in the coming years. “We will continue to work hard in the coming years.Cultivating habits of source segregation, home composting, using alternatives to plastics would soon make our city cleanest in the country,” he said.
He fondly recollected the good work done by Corporation staff, NGOs, Corporates, and citizen volunteers of Swachh Bharath to achieve this unique result.
"The volunteer work and citizen participation in clean- up campaigns held across the city is something to be emulated by all The best is yet to come. Let us all buck up and say I am the agent of change” Vijayakarthikeyan has said in his message to the denizens on this momentous occasion.