Mysuru: Swachh Survekshan-2018, as a prelude to encouraging cities to improve urban sanitation, began in the city from yesterday.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development (now the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs), which had launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on Oct. 2, 2014 (Gandhi Jayanthi day) had also as its aim to have a ‘Swachh Bharat’ by 2019. In the light of this, Swachh Survekshan was introduced and in 2014-15 and 2015-16, Mysuru had bagged the Cleanest City Award. However, in the last survey (2016-17), the city slipped to the fifth spot and thus its dream of a hat-trick lay shattered.
