New Delhi: Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Manohar Lal, launched the ‘Swachh Shehar Jodi’ (SSJ) initiative for handholding 200 cities in urban waste management, an official statement said on Saturday.

SSJ pairs 72 top-performing “mentor” cities with approximately 200 low-ranking “mentee” cities in a structured mentorship framework.

“The SSJ initiative represents one of the largest time-bound and structured mentorship frameworks in the urban waste management sector, aiming to foster knowledge and experience sharing, peer learning and transforming best practices in sanitation and waste management across urban India,” the statement said.

The SSJ initiative officially pairs the mentor with mentee cities that will get direct exposure to well-performing cities to replicate their best pra

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