Rally for garbage free cities on International Day of Zero Waste
Author: Vigya Dwivedi
New Delhi: The Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs in collaboration with GIZ, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection, UNEP is organizing Swachhotsav- International Day of Zero Waste: Rally for Garbage Free Cities in New Delhi to mark International Day of Zero Waste 2023, aligning with the theme ‘Achieving sustainable and environmentally sound practices of minimizing and managing waste’.
Swachhotsav will see discussions and best practices presentations on Circularity in Garbage Free Cities, Women and Youth for GFC, Business and Tech for GFC and Fireside chat with Mayors.
The Swachh Mashaal March will set the tone for the ‘Women-led Swachhotsav’, where citizens will rally for Garbage-Free Cities on 29, 30, 31st March, 2023. This will be followed by cleanliness drives at public places, open plots, water bodies, railway tracks, public toilets in every ward of a participating Urban Local Bodies (ULB). Over 2000 cities have already joined hands for the Mashaal march.
Hardeep S. Puri launched Swachhotsav, a 3-week women-led Swachhata campaign from March 08, 2023. The campaign aimed to recognize and celebrate the transition from women in sanitation to women-led sanitation. A series of events and activities were organized across cities to celebrate women from all walks of life, who provide leadership in making the mission of GFC a success."
The 3-week campaign will culminate in a Swachhotsav event on 29th March, 2023, as a run up to the International Day of Zero Waste on 30th March, 2023.
Under the campaign, the first edition of Women Icons leading Swachhata (WINS) Awards 2023 was announced to recognize high-impact women entrepreneurs or women-led enterprises working for urban swachhata.
A unique peer learning initiative, Swachhata Yatra has been rolled out wherein SHG members engaged as waste entrepreneurs are getting the exciting opportunity of inter- state travel. Acting as Swachhata Doots, many of these women are first time travelers and this enriching experience is offering them a platform to see, interact and learn. /BI/
