Handingover Solid Waste Management equipments Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (U) Mission in by NRL to Nagaon Municipal Board Municipal Board Numaligarh Refinery Ltd. has donated waste handling The Hon'ble President of , in his address to the vehicles and equipments to Nagaon Municipal Board Joint Session of Parliament on 9th June, 2014 had as a part of observance of Swachhata Pakhwada on th announced "By the time the Nation completes 75 7 May, 2018 under the Swachha Bharat Abhiyan years of its Independence, every family will have a initiative of the Central Govt. As one of NRLs flagship pucca house with water connection, toilet facilities, CSR scheme, ‘Parichannata’ the company 24x7 electricity supply and access." ceremonially distributed equipments such as truck mounted garbage compactor, GPS-fitted rickshaw, Hon'ble Prime Minister envisioned Housing for All by tricycle carts, mini skid steer loader and 4-wheeler 2022 when the Nation completes 75 years of its auto tripper. Independence. In order to achieve this objective, Central Government has launched a comprehensive mission "Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Housing for All (Urban)".

The mission seeks to address the housing requirement of urban poor including slum dwellers through following programme verticals:

 Slum rehabilitation of Slum Dwellers with participation of private developers using land as a resource Digitisation of Nagaon Municipal Board projects  Promotion of Affordable Housing for weaker Digitisation of Nagaon Municipal Board section through credit linked subsidy projects is getting inaugurated on 8th  Affordable Housing in Partnership with Public March 2019 by Sri Rajen Gohain, & Private sectors Hon'ble Union Minister of State for  Subsidy for beneficiary-led individual house Railways in the august presence of Sri construction /enhancement. Rupak Sarmah, Hon'ble MLA, Nagaon In Nagaon Municipal Board, constructions of 626 nos. Sadar Assembly constituency and the Sri of houses under Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) Diganta Das, Chairman, Nagaon vertical of PMAY-HFA (Urban) are nearing completion Municipal Board along with Smti. and 3 nos. houses have already been occupied by the Mrinalini Roy, Vice-Chairman, Nagaon beneficiaries. Municipal Board. The services under the project are expected to be rolled out to the citizens of Nagaon Municipal area from the 1st April 2019 in a phase-wise manner. Under this digitisation project, the entire manual records shall be digitised and cash-less mode of online payments shall be facilitated using which taxpayers shall be able to pay their taxes and license fees from the comfort of their homes. Also citizens shall be able to make applications for new holding assessment, new trade licenses & renewals, NOCs and register Completed house under PMAY(U) in Nagaon MB their complaints and grievances online.

Swachhata Hi Sewa (SHS) 2018: Chief Minister launches th water supply and beautification projects in Starting from 15 September, 2018 a country Nagaon wide sanitation initiatives was taken for over 15 days to highlight once again the Jan anndolan – the Swachha Bharat Mission. Our Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri has named the Sanitation campaign from 15th September to 2nd Ovtober, 2018 as “Swachhata Hi Sewa”. The objective of the campaign is to mobilise people and reinforce the “Jan Aandolan” for sanitation to contribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a Clean India.

Nagaon Municipal Board also made elaborate Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on 1st plans to involve people from various walks of life March, 2019 laid the foundation of a Safe and make this an unprecedented people’s Drinking Water Project in Nagaon and also kick campaign. The activities included mass cleaning started the renovation works of three of public places, waste collection drives, door- recreational parks as well as the installation of door waste collection awareness, swachhata high mast LED lights at Nagaon town in a rallies, drawing competitions in schools, programme held at Nehrubali in the district. He segregation of solid waste, toilet pit digging, stated that the State government has toilet construction activities and building undertaken implementation of infrastructure compost. development, water supply and beautification In this connection Nagaon Municipal Board projects to the tune of Rs. 650 crores in four identified special dates during the campaign major cities of the State including Guwahati, period. Starting from 15th Sept. a cleanliness Nagaon, Dibrugarh and Silchar under Atal drive was carried out at Ward No. 11 Horizon Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Colony inaugurated by Hon’ble MLA Nagaon Transformation (AMRUT), stated a press Sadar L.A.C Sri Rupak Sharma in presence of the release. Chairman Nagaon Municipal Board Sri Diganta Stating that implementation of development Das, Vice Chairperson Sri M. Roy, Deputy schemes under AMRUT would benefit 28 Commissioner of Nagaon Sri Biswajit Pegu (IAS), thousand families of Nagaon town, Chief Additional Deputy Commissioner and Executive Minister Sonowal said that being a historic Officer (ACS) Sri Jayanta Kumar Bora and town Nagaon made a significant contribution in Assistant Executive Engineer Sri Rajesh Kumar spiritual, socio-political, literary and cultural life Das & other officials of Nagaon Municipal Board. of the State. Union Minister of State for Railways Rajen People were being mobilised to do large scale Gohain, Minister of State (i/c) for Urban shramdaan for toilet construction, cleaning of Development Department (UDD) Pijush public places, bus stands, schools and colleges, Hazarika, Chairperson of Urban Water statues, hospitals and other commercial areas. At Supply & Sewerage Board Dr. Numal Momin the culmination event on October 2nd Gandhi and Nagaon MLA Rupak Sarma also delivered a Jayanti, which is also the Swachha Bharat Diwas, speech on the occasion. Batadrawa MLA, ULB level awards for essay competitions and Angoorlata Deka, Commissioner & Secretary, drawing competitions were presented to

UDD SS Meenakshi Sundaram, Nagaon DC Jadav Swachhata Champions from across the city. Saikia, Chairman of Nagaon Municipal Board Diganta Das and host of other dignitaries were present in the programme.