Why is kolkata so dirty

Kolkata dirty? Not any more, says survey. Top Searches Kolkata Rain. Srabanti Chatterjee. Kolkata Metro News. Covid vaccine registration online. News City News kolkata News Kolkata dirty? This story is from April 5, There's also a particularly spectacular, floor-to-ceiling carving of Queen Victoria, which seems entirely at home here — her mania and that of her subjects created this whole mess, after all.

From the Marble Palace I walk to the Coffee House, where I'm told I'll be able to have a great many fascinating conversations with people who speak perfect English. Despite its fetid reputation, Kolkata is a tremendously bookish city, home to over colleges and universities and boasting a higher proportion of English speakers than the national average.

This all sounds wonderful and I look forward to some nerdy, literary conversation, as well as a decent cup of coffee. As I stroll around the streets in what Google Maps tells me is the correct neighbourhood, three tiny children appear from out of nowhere, arms outstretched, squealing "Money! They're so scrawny that with one on each leg, I can still make steady progress, like a man walking through a swamp, but when the third jumps on, I'm almost taken down. At this point my options seem limited — I'm 1.

Violence towards three pre-schoolers would almost certainly be uncool. Shamefully and I mean thankfully a local builder sees the chaos unfolding and decides, very chivalrously, to chase the children off, threatening them in a language they can understand specifically: shouting and waving a big stick around. I hail the first available cab and get the hell out of there, following my next recommendation to go to the banks of the Hooghly River, where a religious procession is taking place.

The colours of garments and the faces of the faithful make for spectacular photos, but it's hard to pay too much attention to them when the river police are hauling a dead body out of the water just a few metres away. The pious folk around have almost no interest in it at all — the majority keep on bathing as it's brought ashore — but I can think of nothing else.

However, before I get a chance to dwell on it too much, Maggie tells me I shouldn't worry about it. Maggie is very finely dressed in an airy pink sari, which catches the breeze from the Hooghly. She allows it to gust up and around her face, occasionally hiding her grin, and she giggles all the while. Maggie is a big flirt. Maggie is also not all woman. Sanitation strategies.

From the survey, West Bengal produces metric tonnes of waste a day, which is similar to other metropolitan cities like Delhi and Karnataka However, this is a much lower rate than other highly urbanized centers like Maharasthra and Tamil Nadu So, while West Bengal may have a better method for construction and availability of public toilet and sanitation, it lacks severely behind most urban centers in processing its waste.

Besides, for the first time all the cantonment boards, run by the army, were also included in the survey. West Bengal also fared among the bottom four dirtiest states in the country, followed by Nagaland, Puducherry and Tripura.

Jharkhand is the cleanest state in India followed by Maharashtra and Chattisgarh, according to the report, which was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Indore on Saturday.

Among the cities, Indore is the cleanest -- second year in a row -- followed by Bhopal and Chandigarh. The PM also gave away the award to the cleanest states and cities at a function.

Last year it was ranked Cities were ranked on the basis of their performance in six parameters including collection and transportation of municipal solid waste, their processing and disposal, sanitation related progress, innovation and best practices adapted by cities. A senior ministry official said that West Bengal had not participated in the earlier two cleanliness survey conducted by the ministry in and