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Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai will honor sanitation workers who have brought national recognition to Chhattisgarh at the Swachhta Sangam-2025 event, organized by the Urban Administration and Development Department in Bilaspur district on August 12, 2025. He will also recognize urban bodies that have performed exceptionally well in the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25.
The Swachhta Sangam will bring together mayors, chairpersons, health department members, heads of municipalities and town councils, corporation commissioners, chief municipal officers, senior engineers from urban bodies, and nodal officers of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), along with nine thousand sanitation workers.
At the Swachhta Sangam, the focus is on making cities clean and beautiful. Dr. Basavaraju S., Secretary of the Urban Administration and Development Department, stated that the sanitation workers who have significantly contributed to the cleanliness and beautification of cities will be honored. Seven urban bodies that excelled in the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 will be awarded by President Droupadi Murmu in New Delhi. In addition to these, over 30 urban bodies that have performed best at the divisional level will also be recognized.
The Swachhta Sangam will launch a state-level competition to enhance sanitation and urban beautification standards in urban bodies. This competition aims to strengthen urban cleanliness, improve administrative skills through good governance, and promote urban beautification. This initiative will not only help in making cities clean and beautiful but also enhance the quality of life for citizens. It will encourage representatives, officials, and citizens of every urban body to recognize and improve their capabilities in the fields of sanitation and urban beautification.
During the event, a GIS-based Property Tax Live Portal will be launched to facilitate online property tax payments in three municipal corporations—Birgaon, Bhilai-Charoda, and Dhamtari—and 43 municipalities. The launch of online property tax payments in 46 cities simultaneously represents a significant step towards modernizing local self-governance and providing citizens with home-based services. This will also increase the speed of tax collection.
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai will inaugurate and lay the foundation stones for development projects worth over 260 crore rupees at the Swachhta Sangam. This includes the inauguration of 24 construction and development projects in Bilaspur district, costing over 63.57 crore rupees, and the foundation laying of 25 projects costing over 197 crore rupees. He will also distribute materials and checks to beneficiaries of various schemes.
Chief Minister Sai will inaugurate a commercial complex built at a cost of 3.85 crore rupees at Nutan Chowk in Bilaspur, an STP costing nine crore five lakh rupees in Koni, a girls’ hostel for the Government Engineering College costing four crore 82 lakh rupees, a 3.6 km road from Ngoi Basti to Modhe Naka built for six crore 29 lakh rupees, a 7 km Usalapur-Daija road widening, strengthening and asphalting work costing 12 crore 53 lakh rupees, and a 3.5 km Mangla Bhainsajhar to Deendayal Colony Lokhandi railway crossing two-lane road construction project costing five crore 45 lakh rupees. Additionally, he will inaugurate the Nal-Jal Yojana under the Jal Jeevan Mission in 11 villages of Bilaspur district.
Chief Minister Sai will lay the foundation stone for the construction of the Nalanda complex and academic block under the Education Hub at Dayalband, costing 26 crore 42 lakh rupees, and the Gaurav Path from Ashok Nagar Chowk to Birkora Mod under the Chief Minister’s Urban Upliftment Scheme, costing 17 crore rupees. In addition, he will lay the foundation stone for the Atal Path construction from Arpa Indrasetu to Ram Setu, costing nine crore 74 lakh rupees, and the Mangla Chowk to Azad Chowk road construction, costing five crore nine lakh rupees.
Chief Minister Sai will lay the foundation stone for a high-level bridge on the Arpa River on the Shanichari-Chantidih road, costing 11 crore 56 lakh rupees, a bridge on the Maniyari River between Takhatpur and Barela, costing three crore 76 lakh rupees, the work of upgrading the water supply system operating in Bahatarai, Rajkishore Nagar, Lingiyadih, Devrikhurd, and Sirgitti, costing nine crore 90 lakh rupees, the strengthening work of the 12.6 km long Butena-Dhaurabhata road, costing 34 crore 16 lakh rupees, a building for an English medium Adarsh College costing ten crore rupees and an auditorium to be built in Bilaspur at a cost of 22 crore 22 lakh rupees.
He will also lay the foundation stone for an anicut in Vijaypur, costing six crore 81 lakh rupees, and a 2.5 km road construction, including a culvert on the Sarar Nala between Son and Sonsari Sabaridera in Bilaspur district, costing seven crore 96 lakh rupees, along with various works of the Municipal Corporation, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, Public Works Department, Rural Engineering Service, and Panchayat and Rural Development Department.
