Urban Update February 2021

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Beautifying Indore - One wall at a time The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) is gearing up for Swachh Survekshan 2021 by redecorating the city’s walls and roads, apart from maintaining supreme cleaning standards. The walls are being painted

with local, festive, and cultural artwork. The emphasis on city beautification comes from the desire to meet parameters of Swachh Survekshan, which focusses on visual aspects of cleanliness too. Pratibha Pal, IMC

Commissioner, said citizens of Indore had been actively helping the IMC maintain the city’s cleanliness over the years, owing to which, Indore has been continuously winning the award for the cleanest city of India since 2017.

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Urban Update February 2021

Published on Feb 10, 2021

Urban Update

Cities are at the core of the government’s push for infrastructure development, Foreign Direct Investment for supporting Make in India, and expedite their efforts to make India a USD 5-trillion economy. Simultaneously, cities are also looked up to as the major players in achieving climate agenda, Sustainable Development Goals, and New Urban Agenda’s targets, among many other international objectives. There is a need to balance building a prosperous nation and a sustainable ecosystem of urban spaces. Cities will have to up their game and make their systems more efficient, agile, and well-financed to achieve all objectives at a time. For this, the outreach of the central government to international and national agencies must be in coordination with local governments to augment the desired outcomes