Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been awarded for the best ‘Abhiyan’ among 28 AMRUT cities under the ‘Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan’. Municipal Commissioner and Administrator Radhakrishnan B accepted the award on behalf of NMC on Sunday from Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray in a function organised at the Tata Theatre in Mumbai to commemorate World Environment Day.
Other dignitaries present on the occasion include Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, Environment Minister Aditya Thackeray, Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat, Environment Department Principal Secretary Manisha Mhaiskar, Rashmi Thackeray, MPCB Chairman Abasaheb Jarad, NMC Additional Commissioner Ram Joshi, Executive Engineer Dr Shweta Banerjee, Assistant Commissioners Kiran Bagde, Sandeep Lokhande and others.
The campaign was launched by the State Government’s Environment and Climate Change Department to make urban local bodies identify potential action points to enhance the quality of environment in cities.
The award holds significance in the light of NMC’s extremely poor performance last year, when it ranked 28 among 395 urban local bodies. Within the past year, however, it launched a number of environment protection and preservation activities. It made a substantial contribution to ‘Majhi Vasundhara Abhiyan’. The efforts have paid off apparently.
The competition was judged on the basis of the most creative use of five basic elements — earth, air, water, fire, and space — by various municipal bodies in bettering the environment.
