The civic body has empanelled 66 NGOs to render various civic services to the city residents.

The process to select the NGOs, which had started in August, got completed last week, following which the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation published the names of the organisations on its official website and other platforms to bring it to the notice of the public.

According to the plan, the empanelled organisations will help the civic body in rendering various civic services — such as generating awareness on solid and liquid waste management, ill effects of open defecation and importance of plantation.

“The agencies will help us in operation and maintenance of community toilets, natural disaster management, care of the destitute and elderly, and social mobilisation on various issues, including the Swachh Bharat Mission campaign,” said a civic official.

Plans are also there to take help of the NGOs in waste segregation and plastic waste management. “We need mass participation if we want to attain the objectives of the Swachh Bharat Mission and various other initiatives of the government,” he said.

Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena said that their main objective was to improve the civic services for the people. “The NGOs will help us improve the service,” he said.