New Delhi: Indore in Madhya Pradesh is India’s cleanest city and Gonda in Uttar Pradesh the filthiest, a nationwide cleanliness survey by the urban development ministry has found.
The survey of 434 cities, conducted as part of the Modi government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission, has seen the historic city in MP knock off Karnataka’s Mysuru, which has been topping the rankings. In previous survey Mysuru had bagged first place.
Though in waste collection, solid-waste processing and recycling of water Mysure fared well, the city failed to construct targeted 425 individual household toilets, Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters here while releasing survey results.
Bengaluru City ranked 210 place in the country indicating the city is not up to mark in its cleanliness. Bengaluru scored just 967 out of 2000 score in the survey. Coastal Karnataka’s Mangaluru got 63 position while Udupi bagged 143 place in the country.
Bhopal capital city of Madhya Pradesh bagged second place while Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat are got third and fourth place respectively. Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu bagged sixth place in the survey.
The cleanliness survey was carried out during January and February this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat campaign in 2014 aimed at making India clean and open-defecation free by 2019.
How city ranked
The criteria for this year’s ranking included 45% marks for cities becoming open defecation free, solid waste management (including sweeping, collection, transportation and processing of garbage), education and capacity building. Another 25% marks was kept for field inspection and 30% for citizen feedback. At least 18 lakh citizens across the cities gave their feedback about the sanitation in their respective cities and towns.
(Agencies)
