Chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has set a target of one year to bring Dehradun, which recently finished poorly in a nationwide sanitation survey, among the top 100 cleanest cities of the country. Officials’ efforts towards achieving the target will be linked with their annual appraisal process to ensure accountability among them. Dehradun got 316th position out of 434 cities in the Swachh Survekshan 2017 conducted by the Union ministry of urban development as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The immediate target is to bring it among the top 100 (cities in the survey) within a year and later among the top 50 cities,” Rawat said. Officials’ cleanliness performance has been linked with their appraisal for the first time in the state.

Source: Hindustan Times July 16, 2017 14:15 UTC