COIMBATORE:The city corporation on Saturday honoured schools, hospitals and hotels which were adjudged cleanest in the city's Swachh rankings
Corporation SRG Ammaniammal Girls High School was awarded the cleanest government school and PSGR Krishnammal Higher Secondary School and
Delhi Public School were named the cleanest government-aided and private schools. PSG Hospitals and KG Hospitals were the cleanest hospitals under institutional and multi-specialty categories
Shanti Social Services Canteen was ranked the best in cleanliness among hotels and Geetha Mess, among messes.
Corporation commissioner
K Vijayakarthikeyan, who handed over the mementoes to the winners, said the corporation has been trying to move the city to the first spot in the next nationwide swachh rankings.
"Coimbatore was ranked 16th in 2017. The survey was conducted in around 400 cities across the country," he said. The Centre has launched Swachh Survekshan-2018 to rank all 4,041 cities and towns in the country. "We are trying to make Coimbatore the cleanest city in the country," he said.
"Swachh is a continuous process," Vijayakarthikeyan said. He said the process of ranking schools, hospitals and hotels was not to discourage others, but to motivate every organisation to aspire to be clean, he said.
He added that the cooperation between the corporation, corporates and people in Coimbatore has been good, which had helped the city advance in the swachh ranking over the years.
At the event, under schools, government schools, government-aided schools and private schools were adjudged as separate categories. Institutional hospitals, multi-specialty hospitals, single-specialty hospitals and nursing homes were under separate categories. Hotels, messes and resident associations also were honoured.
