Hyderabad has been selected among 50 cities under the Centre’s newly launched PRAGATI-50 initiative, which aims to make the chosen urban areas completely clean and develop them as models for sanitation and waste management. The programme will cover all municipal areas in Hyderabad, including those administered by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation.
The initiative has been launched by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs and covers 76 municipal areas across 50 cities in 24 states and Union Territories. Besides Hyderabad, the selected urban areas include Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Pune and Kolkata.
According to the programme details reported by Deccan Chronicle, PRAGATI-50 follows Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s direction at the monthly PRAGATI meeting on May 27 to make 50 cities cleaner and achieve 100% cleanliness. The programme will focus on garbage-free cities, solid-waste processing and used-water management.
For Hyderabad, the initiative comes after the city’s municipal administration was divided among three civic bodies. The GHMC, Cyberabad Municipal Corporation and Malkajgiri Municipal Corporation will all be part of the cleanliness push covering the wider Hyderabad urban area. This makes coordination between the three municipal administrations a central part of implementing the programme across the city.
The Centre has said the selected cities will be expected to move beyond routine sanitation work. They will have to demonstrate sustained improvements in visible cleanliness, solid-waste management, used-water management, sanitation and citizen participation. The programme therefore covers both the physical management of waste and wastewater and the public-facing quality of urban sanitation.
The inclusion of three separate municipal corporations means that cleanliness measures in Hyderabad will operate across more than one administrative jurisdiction. Waste collection, processing, sanitation services and used-water management will need to be carried out within each civic body’s area while contributing to the programme’s wider objective for the Hyderabad urban area. The supplied programme details do not specify separate targets, funding allocations or implementation deadlines for the three corporations.
The 50 selected cities include major state capitals as well as tourism and pilgrimage centres. Tirupati, Warangal, Varanasi, Ayodhya, Mathura, Haridwar, Puri, Gaya and Udaipur are among the other cities included in the initiative.
The Centre’s stated focus on sustained improvements indicates that the programme will assess cleanliness as an ongoing municipal function rather than a one-time campaign. For Hyderabad, the next stages will involve the participating civic bodies translating the broad objectives on visible cleanliness, waste processing, used-water management and citizen participation into city-level implementation. Details of those measures and their timelines have not yet been announced in the supplied information.