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monthly cleanliness assessments of indexes, analysis, comparison with pre- High-End
their famous eight yatradhams that vious months, etc. is furnished by the
attract the highest tourist footfall in team and published every month to Cleanliness
Gujarat. keep GPYVB informed of the work be- Assessment
ing done at the locations.
GPYVB has engaged four cleaning At Statue Of
agencies (with two locations allotted to This high impact project has brought
each) to maintain 24x7 cleanliness in about major changes in terms of san- Unity
and around the temple areas at the fol- itation across different tourist loca-
lowing eight locations - Ambaji, Sham- tions, engaged the local population in In the wake of the work being done in
laji, Somnath, Dwarka, Palitana, Gir- a more cohesive manner and has also the Gujarat Yatradham project by QCI,
nar-Junagadh, Dakor, and Pavagadh. led to increased employment bringing Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Limited
GPYVB has also engaged a local mon- about large-scale change in local dy- awarded the contract for conducting
itoring agency to supervise the work namics. This project directly replicates High-end cleanliness assessments in
being done by these cleaning agencies the motto of Swachh Bharat which is in and around the world’s tallest statue,
at all locations on a daily basis. unison with our PM’s vision of a clean Statue of Unity.
and better India.
Some key performance indicators (e.g.
knowledge of scope of work, staff pre-
sentation, and uniform, manpower de-
ployment, garbage collection and dis-
posal, overall cleanliness efficacy, IEC
activities on Swachhta, etc.) were de-
veloped and performance-monitoring
scorecards have been prepared respec-
tively to grade the work being done at
the location by both the cleaning agen-
cy and TPI.

QCI is conducting assessments at the
location twice a month, and furnishing
a monthly report to TCGL portraying
a true picture in terms of scores and
percentages by gauging the work in re-
spect to the cleanliness standards of a
national level monument.
| Oc t ober - Dec ember 2 0 19 Each location is assessed once a month As a direct result of efforts taken by for a renewal of the work order. With
The last report was submitted in Sep-
tember 2019 and we have proposed

more than two years of fruitful associ-
which includes surprise checks, assess-
the cleaning agencies and scrutiny and
ation with the client and content with
ing the knowledge of supervisors and
inspection done by the team at QCI,
the ongoing assessments and recom-
taking public feedback from the local
Somnath Temple received the Swachh
mendations given by us, the project
stakeholders and visitors on the basis
Iconic Temple Award in 2019.
has been extended for another year till
of which a monthly report comprising
12 - performance scorecards, cleanliness September 2020.