10,000 ‘clean city wardens’ to keep Mysuru spotlessly clean

In a citizen-led initiative to strengthen the Mysuru City Corporation’s (MCC) cleanliness drive, the Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP) has proposed recruiting at least 10,000 school students as ‘Mysuru Clean City Wardens’ to promote civic responsibility and discourage littering across the city. The proposal will be discussed at the MGP’s monthly meeting on August 9.

The initiative comes at a time when the MCC has intensified its Swachh Mysuru campaign by taking up the transformation of 80 garbage vulnerable points (GVPs) as part of the country’s 80th Independence Day celebrations. MCC has urged citizens to actively support its ‘Swachh’ efforts, noting that garbage collection from residential areas has improved and that a 100-tonne-per-day Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste Treatment Plant is being established at Sathagalli. The MGP, however, stressed that public participation is crucial to sustaining these gains.