Concrete roads, better health facilities: Mumbai would be transformed in 90 days, says CM Eknath Shinde

Mumbai would transform in 90 days under the new urban renewal plan, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced today. The state government today unveiled a new urban renewal plan. The new campaign is modelled on the Union government's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. It will be carried out from October 2 to December 31 and best-performing cities in the state will get prizes.

Speaking at the launch function of the Swachha Maharashtra Abhiyan (Urban) 2.0, Maharashtra CM said: "Cleanliness in cities should become a mass movement and sanitation workers would be the brand ambassadors of the new mass movement.

He said the state government has prepared an ambitious plan for Mumbai's transformation under which 450 roads will be concretised and the health infrastructure in the city will be strengthened.


Speaking on the occasion, deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the state's urban areas would be completely transformed under the Swachha Maharashtra campaign. He said cities are centres of growth which generate employment.

Union government's Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan has completed eight years. Wit h an aim to make India clean, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan in 2014. Indore was ranked India's cleanest city for the fifth year in a row in the latest