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SKOCH award for Warangal
A year after the e-Office project, aimed at ushering in paperless administration, that found a place among the ‘Top 100 Projects’ in India for the year 2016 adjudged by the SKOCH Awards, the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) has again hit the headlines by notching up yet another prestigious award, ‘Order of Merit’, for implementing best practices in sanitation.
Warangal: A year after the e-Office project, aimed at ushering in paperless administration, that found a place among the ‘Top 100 Projects’ in India for the year 2016 adjudged by the SKOCH Awards, the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) has again hit the headlines by notching up yet another prestigious award, ‘Order of Merit’, for implementing best practices in sanitation.
It may be noted here that the Gurgaon-based SKOCH Group, an independent assessor of states, has been giving away awards to encourage top performing government bodies and organisations working to eliminate open defecation, enhancing sanitation and public health.
The GWMC, which achieved several firsts by introducing exclusive toilets for women in the city and ensuring toilets in all fuel stations (petrol bunks) in the city, besides having 45 well maintained public toilets run by public-private partnership, caught the attention of the SKOCH for the ‘Order of Merit’ award.
Since August 2016, the GWMC has constructed 32,000 individual sanitary latrines (ISLs) and nine SHE-toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission besides sanctioning seven community toilets. Now, the Corporation is on the brink of becoming Open Defecation Free (ODF) city. It may be noted here that the civic body has issued preliminary notification on August 12 inviting objections and suggestions ahead of declaring ODF city on September 30.
The Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation has entered into an MoU with the Tide Technocrats Pvt Ltd for setting up of 15 KLD capacity Fecal Sludge (waste from septic tanks) Treatment Plant. Under this, Rs 1.2 crore Resource Park funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is coming up at Ammavaripeta.
Warangal Urban Collector Amrapali Kata and GWMC Commissioner Sruthi Ozha will receive the award at the 49th SKOCH Summit to be held on September 8 and 9 in Delhi.
