Mysuru: Hunsur has won the South Zone Award for Best City in Solid Waste Management (SWM) while the Heritage City of Mysuru has slipped into eighth position in the Swachh Survekshan 2018 from the fifth position it achieved in 2017. The rankings were released in New Delhi on June 25 by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Hunsur has scored 280 out of 476 marks in the SWM indicators which include segregation of waste in a majority of Wards.
Speaking to SOM, Parvathi Devi, the Swachh Survekshan Nodal Officer, who is also the Executive Officer of Hunsur City Municipal Council and Environment Engineer K.P. Ravikumar said that they have been practicing waste segregation since the last six years and waste that is collected from all the 27 Wards are efficiently segregated. For this, Pourakarmikas and members of Women’s Self Help Groups are involved and they play an active role here.
