Swachhata Excellence Award for Hyderabad

Hyderabad has received the Swachhata Excellence Award from the Swachh Bharat Mission. The GHMC was selected under the category of cities with a population of over one million for engaging community-based organisations and informal waste pickers in sanitation and solid waste management.

The award comes with Rs 10 lakh cash. The award is recognition for providing greater employment opportunities in the city as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission.

A press statement said that GHMC had hired unemployed, semi-skilled women and



SHGs from every ward as Swachh community resource persons. These CRPs were trained and allotted 600 households each to promote source segregation and ensure that all households give segregated waste to the garbage collector.