Union Government has launched the Eighth Edition of Swachh Survekshan SS-2023 under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0. It is curated towards achieving circularity in ________.

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SSC CGL 2022 Tier-I Official Paper (Held On : 12 Dec 2022 Shift 3)

Answer 1

Correct answer waste management

Key Points:

The Secretary, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Manoj Joshi launched the 8th edition of Swachh Survekshan (SS) – SS 2023 under Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0, on 24 May 2022.
Swachh Survekshan was introduced by MoHUA in 2016.
PM Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban 2.0 on 1 October 2021, with a vision of garbage-free cities.
The theme of SS 2023 is ‘Waste to Wealth".

Important Points:

The survey would give priority to the principle of the 3Rs – Reduce, Recycle, and Reuse.
Over the years, Swachh Survekshan has emerged as the largest Urban sanitation survey in the world.
The seventh edition of Swachh Survekshan - ‘Azadi @ 75 Swachh Survekshan 2022’ was a landmark Survekshan as it coincided with the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The SS 2022 survey covered 4,355 cities, 85,860 wards, 2.12 lakhs locations visited, 5.5 lakhs documents assessed, 1.14 Crores citizen feedback recorded, 4.77 lakhs citizen validation undertaken, 23.38 lakhs photos and videos collected as evidence and 17.24 lakhs data points collected.