MC Chandigarh to participate in the ‘Indian Swahhata League’, an inter-city, youth led, swacchta competition on 17th Sept as part of the Swacch Amrit Mahotsav. 

Chandigarh, September 11:- To celebrate eight years of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh will organize ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’, to galvanize action around swachhata between 17th Sept. 2022, Seva Diwas and 2nd Oct. 2022, Swachhata Diwas. The fortnight will focus on mobilizing citizen action and commitment towards the vision of building ‘Garbage Free Cities’.

While 7 events under the banner Swacchta Ka Satrangi Saptah, will be completely youth led, the remaining events will mark major milestones in the history of the Swacchta Journey of Chandigarh.

While sharing details of this initiative, Ms. Anindita Mitra, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation Chandigarh said that the official logo for the fortnight, ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav: Ek Aur Kadam Swachhata Ki Ore’ signifying the resolve to intensify and reinvigorate the Jan Andolan in the world’s largest sanitation programme has been released by the Ministry of Housing Affairs (MoHUA). She said that the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh has decided to name their team *“CHANDIGARH CHALLENGERS”* . The team leader is the youth icon Mr. Rohit Kumar, working in the field of Swachhata for the last 5-6 years.

She said that to fulfill the Hon’ble Prime Minister’s vision of harnessing youth energy for positive action, the first ever ‘Indian Swachhata League’, an inter-city competition will take place between the youth of the cities on the 17th of Sept. 2022. For the maiden edition of ISL, more than 1,850 city teams from across the country have officially registered to compete. Each team will compete in the League by creating their own unique sanitation initiatives to focus on creating Garbage free beaches, hills, and tourist places, she added.

The Commissioner said that the citizens have been invited to join the city team on the official MyGov portal from 11th September 2022 onwards. The link for citizen registration is as follows: *https://innovateindia.mygov.in/swachhyouthrally/.* This link will be live till 6.00 pm on 17th September 2022, she said.

She further said that this initiative has already generated a lot of excitement and interest amongst the youth fraternity. Various other interesting initiatives have been lined up during the fortnight such as Mega Human Chain formation in Rose Garden on 17th, Start-Up Challenge on 20th, Plogging of 25th, Toycathon- Making toys from waste and Technology Exhibition on 26th, Flash Mob Dances, Nukkad Nataks etc finally culminating with the observation of Swachh Bharat Diwas on 2nd Oct., Gandhi Jayanti.

She appealed to citizens, especially the youth, to register and express their solidarity to the cause.

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