{"id":148111,"date":"2021-11-22T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=148111"},"modified":"2021-11-22T20:47:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:17:33","slug":"shifting-the-pile-on-inequity-and-swachh-citiest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shifting-the-pile-on-inequity-and-swachh-citiest\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting the pile: On inequity and Swachh citiest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs has released the results of Swachh Survekshan 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the key takeaways of the Swachh Survekshan 2021 awards?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read here<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/president-of-india-graces-swachh-amrit-mahotsav-and-presents-swachh-survekshan-awards-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President of India Graces Swachh Amrit Mahotsav and Presents Swachh Survekshan Awards 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ganga Towns: <\/strong>Varanasi has been awarded the cleanest town award along the banks of river Ganga.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prerak Daaur Samman: <\/strong>It is a new category of awards that starts from 2021 and judged states on its Solid waste management. It ranked Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi Municipal Council and Tirupati as &#8216;Divya&#8217; (platinum).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the purpose of such rankings?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Publicity boost\u00a0 2) Motivation to do better<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the questions raised by the<\/strong> <strong>Swachh Survekshan survey?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The award categories have expanded manifold e.g., Separate award for States Category based on number of ULBs in the State (Above 100 and below 100); &#8216;Ganga City&#8217;, &#8216;Prerak Daaur Samman&#8217;, and &#8216;Population&#8217; wise category. The expanded categories mean that more cities get awards and consequently the award process resembles an appeasement exercise.<\/p>\n<p>For the last six years, almost the same cities are topping the survey. This raises legitimate questions like\u00a0 (1) whether cities are actually getting motivated as intended; (2) whether some cities have better access to funds; (3) whether the States focus their funds in keeping some cities clean to avail of a rank in any of the wide number of categories; (4) Can complex problems like sanitation be reduced to simple metrics?<\/p>\n<p>Thus, there should be a better analysis of the scheme to understand whether the cities are getting cleaner or the numbers are hiding inequity?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>This post is based on the article &#8220;<b>Shifting the pile: On inequity and Swachh cities<\/b><strong>t&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>published in\u00a0 <strong>The Hindu <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>22nd November 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs has released the results of Swachh Survekshan 2021. What are the key takeaways of the Swachh Survekshan 2021 awards? Read here: President of India Graces Swachh Amrit Mahotsav and Presents Swachh Survekshan Awards 2021 Ganga Towns: Varanasi has been awarded the cleanest town award along the banks&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/shifting-the-pile-on-inequity-and-swachh-citiest\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shifting the pile: On inequity and Swachh citiest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5480,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-148111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704949465},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5480"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}