Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSpeaking at the launch event, Shri Puri said, \u201cEarlier this\nyear, we had launched Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (SS League 2020) with the\nobjective of sustaining the on ground performance of cities along with\ncontinuous monitoring of service level performance on cleanliness. Today\u2019s\nevent for launching the Swachh Survekshan 2020, with field survey to be\nconducted in January 2020, is particularly significant since it gives us the\nopportunity to reaffirm once again our promise for a Clean, Garbage Free and\nSanitary \u201cNew India\u201d, by not only sustaining the gains that we have made under\nthe SBM, but also by providing a roadmap to institutionalize the concept of\ntotal Swachhata among all our cities.\u201d The Swachh Survekshan 2020 Toolkit\nlaunched by the Hon\u2019ble Minister contains the detailed survey methodology and\ncomponent indicators with scores to help cities to prepare themselves for the\nsurvey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shri Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, MoHUA during his\npresentation on SS 2020 mentioned, \u201cEvery year, the Swachh Survekshan is\nredesigned innovatively, to ensure that the process becomes more and more\nrobust, with focus on sustaining the changed behaviours\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, in line with the focus on continuity and sustainability,\na major focus of SS 2020 indicators, both for the quarterly and annual\nassessments – has been on complete faecal sludge management and waste water\ntreatment, in line with the Government\u2019s promise made in its election\nmanifesto. Reiterating its commitment to the cause, the Ministry also launched\nthe Water PLUS Protocol and the accompanying Toolkit. Moving beyond ODF, ODF+\nand ODF++, the Water PLUS protocol aims to provide a guideline for cities and\ntowns to ensure that no untreated wastewater is released into the environment\nthereby enabling sustainability of the sanitation value chain. This is in line\nwith the Government\u2019s focus on water conversation and reuse under the Jal\nShakti Abhiyan and also aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals on clean\nwater and sanitation. The toolkit provides the detailed SBM Water Plus protocol\nlaid down by MoHUA, along with declaration formats to be obtained from various\nstakeholders, that wards \/ work circles (in case under jurisdiction of\ndevelopment authority) and cities are required to submit, as part of the SBM\nWater Plus declaration and certification process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SS 2020 will be conducted in January 2020. A major thrust of\nSwachh Survekshan has always been on citizen engagement, be it through citizen\nfeedback or indicators involving citizen participation. This year, the\ncitizen-centric focus has been enhanced substantially through verification of\nthe progress made by cities on Swachhata through direct responses from\ncitizens. Continuing with its focus on providing integrated waste management\nsolutions to Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) and citizens, MoHUA also launched the\nSwachh Nagar Mobile App. This app, with features such as tracking of waste\ncollection by ULBs through route and vehicle monitoring, notification to citizens,\nonline collection of user fee for waste collection and an effective grievance\nredressal mechanism, will be the answer to several issues that hinder effective\nwaste management such as lack of monitoring, collection of segregated waste,\nand tracking the movement of waste vehicles and waste pickers, amongst others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event also saw the launch of AI enabled mSBM App, a\nmobile app developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) that helps detect\nthe beneficiary face and toilet seat in the photo uploaded using Artificial\nIntelligence (AI) model at the backend. This app will not only facilitate the\napplicants of Individual Household Toilets (IHHL) under SBM-U know the status\nof their application in real-time after uploading the photograph but also help\nthem upload the correct photo. The App will also help the respective ULB nodal\nofficer to verify and approve the application thereby significantly reducing\nthe processing time for applicants. The launch event ended with the release of\nthe Swachh Survekshan theme song. While Padmashree awardee Kailash Kher and\nMonali Thakur have lent their voice to the song titled \u2018Swachhata Adhikar Hai\u2019,\nnational award winning actor, Kangana Ranaut has featured in the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Housing & Urban Affairs launched the Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020), the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) here today. Alongside, the Swachh Survekshan 2020 Toolkit, SBM Water PLUS Protocol and Toolkit, Swachh Nagar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[454],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-swachh-survekshan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}