Under the guidance of District Collector Richa Prakash Chaudhary, eleven trainee IAS officers received detailed insights into Bhilai Municipal Corporation’s public welfare schemes. Key officials, including Assistant Collector M Bharadwaj, District Panchayat CO, and BMC Commissioner Bajrang Dubey, introduced the officers to various state-run programs aimed at public welfare. The officers were given a comprehensive overview of Durg district’s unique features, including its industrial prominence due to the Bhilai Steel Plant, its status as an education hub, and its agricultural and historically significant rural communities. Following this, the officers learned about Bhilai’s solid waste management system.

 

They were briefed on how waste is collected from homes, shops, and market areas, segregated, and then recycled. The officers were then taken to the SLRM (Solid and Liquid Resource Management) center, where they observed waste management practices firsthand and interacted with women’s groups actively working at the center. Additionally, they visited Bhilai’s main water supply system, the 77 MLD filtration plant, where they observed the process of making water from the Shivnath River potable. They learned that the treated water is supplied to different zones of the city via several water tanks. The trainee officers—Amrita Sandipan, Vishnu Shashi Kumar, Shalini Singh, Hemant Singh, Archana P P, Karthik Raja K M, J Ashiq Hussain, Harshit Singh, Ayush Agrawal, Suraj K L, Kiran, and Saloni Chhabra—showed keen interest in the processes and asked questions about the 45-minute water treatment cycle. Officials present at the training included Chief Engineer Deepak Joshi, Zonal Commissioner Satish Yadav, Ajay Singh Rajput, Rupesh Kumar Pandey, Durg Janpad Panchayat’s Ashutosh Dubey, Health Officer Javed Ali, Engineer Sanjay Agrawal, Brijesh Srivastava, Vinita Verma, Deepak Dewangan, and Arpit Banjare, who provided valuable insights on civic operations.