Indore tops list of cleanest cities in country
Surat and Navi Mumbai stand second and third on the list
Indore in Madhya Pradesh; Surat in Gujarat; and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra bagged awards for India’s top three cleanest cities with more than 100,000 population.
Indore was named India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in the annual cleanliness survey ‘Swachh Survekshan 2022’.
Meanwhile, Panchgani in Maharashtra; Patan in Chhattisgarh; and Karhad in Maharashtra took the top positions in the category of cities with less than 100,000 population.
Top states
In the category of best performing states in the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022, Madhya Pradesh bagged the top position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
President Droupadi Murmu yesterday gave the awards to the winning cities and urban local bodies at an event in Delhi, which was attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
“Swachh Survekshan is today the largest urban sanitation survey in the world. What began in 2016 as a pilot among 73 cities has grown into a massive exercise with the 2022 edition covering 4,355 cities. The spirit of healthy competitive federalism is in full display. Urban local bodies (ULBs) have competed vigorously to improve their rankings on various Swachhata parameters,” said Puri.
While SBM (U) succeeded in making Swachhata into a mass people’s movement, SBM (U) 2.0 signals an even greater ambition, he added.
“By the end of SBM (U) 2.0, I am convinced that our cities will become garbage free,” said the minister.
This year’s Survekshan coincided with the 75th year of India’s independence.