Swachh Survekshan 2020 Results: Indore Is India’s Cleanest City And Chhattisgarh The Cleanest State
Swachh Survekshan 2020: Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announces the results of the fifth annual cleanliness survey which is part of the Swachh Bharat Mission
Indore is India’s cleanest city for the fourth time in a row and Chhattisgarh is the cleanest state for the second time, as per the ‘Swachh Survekshan 2020’ results announced by Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri at the Swachh Mahotsav being organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUHA). Gujarat’s Surat gets second place and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai is at number three spot in terms of clean cities with a population more than a lakh. Jharkhand is the cleanest state in the category of less than 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs). This is the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country.
Heartiest congratulations!
Indore is India’s cleanest city 4th year in a row. The city & its people have shown exemplary dedication towards cleanliness. Congratulations to MP CM @ChouhanShivraj people, political leadership & Municipal Corporation for this superlative performance. pic.twitter.com/cg3DH6PnHM— Hardeep Singh Puri (@HardeepSPuri) August 20, 2020
Here are the top highlights of the Swachh Survekshan 2020:
- Indore, Madhya Pradesh has been declared as the cleanest city for the fourth year
- Chhattisgarh in the cleanest state in the category of states with more than 100 urban local bodies (ULBs)
- Surat in Gujarat is the second cleanest city (Population more than one lakh category)
- Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra attains the number three spot in terms of cleanliness (Population more than one lakh category)
- Ahmedabad is India’s the cleanest Megacity
- Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur is the cleanest smallest city
- New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) is the cleanest capital city
- Bengaluru wins the Best Self Sustainability award in the Megacity category
- Jharkhand is the cleanest state in the category of state with less than 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)
- Varanasi is the cleanest Ganga Town
Here are the other highlights of the Swachh Survekshan 2020 results announced today:
- Best State (More than 100 ULBs):
a. Number 2: Maharashtra
b. Number 3: Madhya Pradesh
c. Fastest mover state: Odisha (jumped 6 positions since 2019) - Best State (Less than 100 ULBs):
a. Number 2: Haryana
b. Number 3: Uttarakhand
c. Fastest mover state: Assam (jumped 25 ranks since 2019) - In cities with a population less than one lakh:
a. Karad in Maharashtra is the cleanest city
b. Saswad in Maharashtra got the second position in terms of clean cities in less than one lakh population
c. Maharashtra scored a hat-trick in the clean city under one lakh population with Lonavala winning the number 3 spot - In cantonment boards:
a. Jalandhar cantonment from Punjab was declared the cleanest among 62 surveyed
b. Delhi cantonment board came in second - A city with maximum citizen participation:
a. shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh (Population more than one lakh)
b. Nandprayag in Uttarakhand (Population less than 1 lakh)
- A city with 10-40 lakh population category:
a. Cleanest city – Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
b. Best self-sustainable city – Rajkot, Gujarat
- A city with 10-40 lakh population category:
a. Cleanest city – Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
b. Best self-sustainable city – Rajkot, Gujarat c. Fastest mover city – Jodhpur, Rajasthan
- A city with 3-10 lakh population category:
a. Cleanest city – Mysuru, Karnataka
b. Best self-sustainable city – Bhilai Nagar, Chhattisgarh c. Fastest mover city – Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh (jumped by 215 positions from 2019)
- Capital City Category:
a. Best self-sustainable capital city – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
b. Fastest mover capital city – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Improved 95 positions from 2019)
- Best Ganga Town Category:
a. Number two is Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh
b. Number three (less than 50,000 population) – Chunnar, Uttar Pradesh
- Cleanest City North zone Category:
a. 50,000 to 1 Lakh population – Ganga Ghat, Uttar Pradesh
b. 25,000 -50,000 population – Nawanshahr, Punjab
c. Up to 25,000 population – Awagarh, Uttar Pradesh
- Cleanest City South Zone Category:
a. 50,000 to 1 Lakh population – Palamaneri, Andhra Pradesh
b. 25,000 -50,000 population – Medchal, Telangana
c. Up to 25,000 population – Periyapatna, Karnataka
- Cleanest City West Zone Category:
a. 50,000 to 1 Lakh population – Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
b. 25,000 -50,000 population – Shirdi, Maharashtra
c. Up to 25,000 population – Panhala, Maharashtra
- Cleanest City North East Zone Category:
a. 50,000 to 1 Lakh population – Jorhat, Assam
b. 25,000 -50,000 population – Mokukchung, Nagaland
c. Up to 25,000 population – Jiribam, Manipur
- Cleanest City North East Zone Category:
a. 50,000 to 1 Lakh population – Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh
b. 25,000 -50,000 population – Jashpur Nagar, Chhattisgarh
c. Up to 25,000 population – Patan, Chhattisgarh
- Cities with Best Citizen Led Initiative
a. Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
b. Kareem Nagar, Telangana
c. Sihora, Madhya Pradesh
Swachh Survekshan is a pan India annual cleanliness survey that ranks India’s cities, towns, and states based on sanitation, waste management, and overall cleanliness. This time the survey covered a total of 4,242 cities, 62 Cantonment Boards, and 92 Ganga Towns and saw unprecedented participation of 1.87 crore citizens. This year, the format of the survey was tweaked to adopt a Swachh Survekshan League model, where instead of once in a year exercise of assessing the cities and states for its cleanliness quotient, the assessment happened throughout the year.
The Minister also interacted with select beneficiaries, swachhagrahis (Clean India Warriors), and Safai Karmis (Sanitation Workers) under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) from different parts of the country through video conference.
A total of 129 awards will be handed out to the top-performing cities and states. Indore has been winning the top slot for the last three years and has also won in the first two-quarters of the Swachh Survekshan League announced for this year.
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