The MoUD has sent a
communication to the Directorate of Municipal Administration and the
Tiruchi Corporation stating that Tiruchi city has been selected in “the
winning category.” The exact position of the ranking would be known on
Thursday. A four-member team of the Tiruchi Corporation led by its
Special Officer-cum-Commissioner N. Ravichandran left for New Delhi on
Tuesday to receive the award.

“We
do not know the exact position of Tiruchi city in the ranking. But, the
MoUD officials have asked us to attend the award ceremony. We are
heading for New Delhi. We hope that Tiruchi city will get a respectable
position once again,” Mr. Ravichandran told
The Hindu
on Tuesday. He said out of 2,000 marks set by the Directorate of Swachh
Bharat Mission, the Tiruchi Corporation would score good marks on
various categories. It had taken strenuous efforts to get maximum marks
in all categories, including solid waste management, citizen feedback,
night sweeping, on-site composting, biometric attendance, Swachhata APP
downloading, practice and responding to the citizens complaints,
community toilet, Individual Household Latrine coverage and others.

Mr.
Ravichandran said that it might score less marks only in landfill
category. The Corporation had narrowed down the gaps in all shortcomings
that were identified in the previous years. The city had secured all
India second rank in the Swachh Bharat ranking 2014-15. However, it went
down by a place in 2015-16. The survey for 2016-17 was completed in
January. A team from the Quality Council of India had visited Tiruchi to
get a first-hand information on cleanliness of the city.