Amlendu Bhushan Khan
New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi lok sabha seat Varanasi is on 32nd position in clean list while in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore is on top of India’s cleanest city. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath’s Gonda the filthiest. Urban Development Minister M Venkaiya Naidu today released the nationwide cleanliness survey report.
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.
Government survey has found. Bhopal, another city from MP has been ranked second while Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Surat in Gujarat have emerged as the third and fourth cleanest cities.
Mysuru in Kartanaka, which topped the list in the 2015 survey covering 73 million-plus cities, has slipped to number five in the list while Tiruchirapally in Tamil Nadu gets the sixth rank, followed by New Delhi Municipal Council at number seven.
Mysuru slipped to number five, an indication it failed to stick to the sanitation standards it achieved in 2016 and 2014. Waste collection, solid-waste processing and checking open defecation were among other criteria cities were measured against.
The cleanliness survey was carried out during January and February.
Launched in 2014, the Swachh Bharat campaign aims to make India clean and open-defecation free by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary year of Mahatma Gandhi.
The New Delhi Municipal Council area, the Capital’s power district where 1.5 % of Delhi’s 16.78 million resident live, is out of the top five. It slipped to seventh position, dropping three places from last year.
Read list of cities
1 Indore Madhya Pradesh 2 Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 3 Visakhapatnam (Vizag) Andhra Pradesh 4 Surat Gujarat 5 Mysuru (Mysore) Karnataka 6 Tiruchirappalli (Trichy) Tamil Nadu 7 New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) Delhi 8 Navi Mumbai Maharashtra 9 Tirupati Andhra Pradesh 10 Vadodara Gujarat 11 Chandigarh Chandigarh 12 Ujjain Madhya Pradesh 13 Pune Maharashtra 14 Amdavad (Ahmedabad) Gujarat 15 Ambikapur Chattisgarh 16 Coimbatore Tamil Nadu 17 Khargone Madhya Pradesh 18 Rajkot (M. Corp) Gujarat 19 Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 20 Gandhinagar (NA) Gujarat 21 Jabalpur Madhya Pradesh 22 Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) Telangana 23 Sagar Madhya Pradesh 24 Murwara (Katni) Madhya Pradesh 25 Navsari Gujarat 26 Vapi Gujarat 27 Gwalior Madhya Pradesh 28 Warangal Telangana 29 Greater Mumbai Maharashtra 30 Suryapet Telangana 31 Tadipatri Andhra Pradesh 32 Varanasi Uttar Pradesh 33 Bhavnagar Gujarat 34 Kalol Gujarat 35 Jamnagar Gujarat 36 Omkareshwar Madhya Pradesh 37 Kumbakonam Tamil Nadu 38 Rewa Madhya Pradesh 39 Jetpur Navagadh Gujarat 40 Narasaraopet Andhra Pradesh 41 Chas Jharkhand 42 Erode Tamil Nadu 43 Kakinada Andhra Pradesh 44 Tenali Andhra Pradesh 45 Siddipet Telangana 46 Rajahmundry Andhra Pradesh 47 Shimla Himachal Pradesh 48 Ratlam Madhya Pradesh 49 Godhra Gujarat 50 Gangtok Sikkim 51 Singrauli Madhya Pradesh
