Dhanbad needs officers to remove 'Dirtiest city' tag: Mayor

To get rid of the dubious distinction of being the 'Dirtiest city of India', the city Mayor suggested it needs experienced officers who can deal with dirt and pollution spread by thousands of coal laden trucks.
Chandrashekhar Agrawal said this to Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu in a video conference on progress of Swachh Bharat Mission here.
"Around 90% municipal area of Dhanbad come under BCCL jurisdiction. Per day 8000 coal trucks enter and leave the city creating pollution and spreading dirt," Agrawal said.
He said the Corporation needs experienced officers to deal such type of problems.
On what the Corporation has done to come out of the 'dirtiest city' tag, Agrawal told Naidu that 2000 dustbin were placed in the city, DPR for solid waste management has been prepared and 17,000 toilets have been constructed and 53,000 more would be set up by March 2017.

Dhanbad has been ranked the dirtiest in February in the first survey by the union urban development ministry after the launch of 'Swachh Bharat' mission in 2014. The survey covered 73 cities.
The Mayor said the corporation had only six senior officials till last year but now more officers have joined.
Originally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to hold the video conferencing, but Nadu came in his place due to some unavoidable circumstances.