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Meerut Municipal Corporation’s
‘Kabaad Se Jugaad’
Meerut Municipal Corporation beautify the city. Now, we see a
has beautified the intersections renewed Meerut and it feels great.
and parks of the city with the In fact, it is commendable that the
'Kabaad Se Jugaad' initiative echo of the work done by our city
undertaken by their team. officials has reached the Prime
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Minister."
appreciated this initiative in his Amit Pal, Municipal
'Mann ki Baat' program, which Commissioner, said, "When
boosted the enthusiasm of the single-use plastic was banned by
entire team of the Municipal the Government, all the officers
Corporation. and employees of the Municipal
Our Doordarshan team Corporation of Meerut were called
interacted with the officials of to discuss and talks were held
Meerut Municipal Corporation on how to make this campaign
and the residents of the city. more effective. At that time it was
Pooja Rawat, a Meerut city thought that whatever scrap or
resident, says, "Earlier when we junk is lying in our sanitation store
used to go out for a night walk, should be connected with the
the filth of the city was visible city beautification work, and that
but now the waste items, which is how the 'Kabaad se Jugaad'
were thrown on the side of the program was started. Old tyres,
roads, were reused by the Meerut drums, plastic scrap lying in the
Municipal Corporation officials to store were used to make various
shaped installations
which were installed in
the squares of our city.
This campaign was
highly appreciated
by the residents of
Meerut.”
The Meerut
Municipal Corporation
was selected in the
'Indian Cleanliness
League' award under
the Swachhata
Survey Award by the
Government of India.
Along with this, Meerut
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