Environment of Delhi and Sikkim(150-200 words)
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delhi environment is very polluted and it is not easy to live their
Sikkim environment is very good it is little bit cold or warm it is great spot of tourism I also want to go and settle their
if I got any opportunity to live theil
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In Sikkim’s Basilakha, a village of 120 families in its east district, residents happily escort you to show their toilets, with some of them bragging about the upgrade to European commodes.
Basilakha is not an exception. In every village of Sikkim, a former monarchy annexed to India in 1975, people have a sense of pride that their state is India’s first and only open defecation-free state, a record reiterated early this month by a nation-wide sanitation survey undertaken by a Central government agency, the National Sample Survey Office.
Our family has had sanitary latrine for many years now. But cleanliness here is not because of our toilets alone. No one here uses plastics, no one smokes in public places, no one urinates in the open, and no one litters. There is a penalty for every violation," says Ganga Subba, a resident of Basilakha and cultivator of cardamom, vegetables and flowers, which she sells in the weekly bazaar of Gangtok, the capital city located about 30 km from her village. Gangtok and, for that matter, every town and village in Sikkim, could make a perfect case study for the Swachh Bharat Mission — except that the state began its cleanliness drive more than a decade before Swachh Bharat was even a gleam in the Modi government’s When I see the Swachh Bharat campaign in such a big way across the country, I feel vindicated. Yes, I did something right way back in 2003," says CM Pawan Chamling. The campaign for a clean Sikkim began 13 years ago, with the first acknowledgement of its success coming in 2008 when the Government of India bestowed the state with the Nirmal Rajya award, a national honour for cleanliness.
In Sikkim’s main cities such as Gangtok or Namchi (the latest addition to the Central government’s list of smart cities), there has been a conscious effort to install public filters for drinking water, build more public toilets and introduce a better signage system — some of the parameters often deployed to rank a city’s cleanliness.
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However, Gangtok mayor Shakti Singh Chowdhary, a Haryanvi born and brought up in Sikkim, is not happy with the city receiving only the eighth rank in an all-India clean city ranking survey — Swachh Sarvekshan 2016 — released early this year. He explained how the city authority has been working hard on parameters such as segregation of waste before disposal, and introduction of a better signage system for public toilets. He believes that relative poor performances in those parameters pulled Gangtok down to the eighth rank, behind cities such as Mysuru, Visakhapatnam, Surat and Rajkot.
Plastic, banned in Sikkim for over a decade now, is rarely spotted. But the city is confronted with a bigger devil — PET (polyethylene terephthalate) water bottles, which are discarded by tourists. In government functions, those bottles have already been banned and if, the state machinery has its way, there could soon be a complete ban on such water bottles, forcing tourists to use only RO or filter water available in designated public places, hotels and restaurants.
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The state may go ahead with such a radical move as there is a political consensus on a PET ban. Congress state unit president Bharat Basnett says his party would welcome a state government ban on PET water bottles which, once executed, would be yet another first in India. Basnett adds: “Sikkim has been clean from the days of monarchy. Cleanliness is in our culture. Let’s give full credit to its disciplined people, and not the government.” While Sikkim has clearly emerged as the cleanest, with a possibility of becoming the first state with zero poverty (only 8% families are now living below poverty line), the challenge is to maintain the momentum. “Sikkim has a history of good civic behaviour. Yet, it will be quite challenging to sustain its cleanliness drive and also its ODF (open defecation free) status,” says Akshay Rout, an officer on special duty in the Union ministry of drinking water and sanitation and one of the nodal officers in the Central government’s Swachh Bharat mission. Rout adds that Kerala and Gujarat are the two other states that have been moving fast towards becoming 100% open defecation free.
For Sikkim, a bigger challenge has however come in the form of the 14th Finance Commission, which has changed the earlier formula of Central funding, which in 2015-16 was 20% lower than a year ago. This, at a time when funds to all other states have seen a 35% aggregate increase after the implementation of the 14th Finance Commission recommendations. If the average increase of Central funds to all other states had been applied, Sikkim should have received `3,313 crore in 2015-16, and not `1,974 crore, according to a November 8, 2015, letter of CM Chamling addressed to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, a copy of which was reviewed by ET Magazine. Chamling’s Sikkim Democratic Front is an ally of BJPheaded NDA at the Centre. An anguished CM says that although the