Indore city in Madhya Pradesh retained its position for the fourth time as the cleanest city in India, according to results of the Swachh Survekshan 2020 survey declared on Thursday. The second and third positions in the category were grabbed by Surat and Navi Mumbai respectively.
Chandigarh got the 16th rank in the central government’s cleanliness survey. Last year, the city was ranked the 20th cleanest city and in 2018, it stood third.
Panchkula improved its ranking in the survey for the fourth year in a row. The city was ranked 56th – an improvement of 15 positions from the 71st spot in the previous year. In 2018, it stood at 142 and in 2017, it was at 211th rank.
Moreover, Panchkula bagged the third spot in Haryana in this year’s survey. While Karnal bagged the first place in the state, Rohtak stood second.
A total of 1.9 crore citizens across 4,242 cities of the country participated in the survey held by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
This is the fifth edition of the survey that was introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2016. In the first edition of the survey, Mysuru had won the award for the cleanest city of India.
In category of population of less than 1 lakh, Maharashtra’s Karad bagged the first position, followed by state’s Saswad and Lonavala.
Best performing states in terms of overall performance were divided in two categories- states with over 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and states with less than 100 ULBs. In the first category, Chhattisgarh bagged the award for the second time and Jharkhand won the award in the second category.
India’s Cleanest Cantonment Board award was given to Jalandhar cantonment from Punjab and Best Ganga Town award was given to Varanasi.
