Indore Is India’s Cleanest City And Chhattisgarh The Cleanest State

New Delhi, Nation Now

 Indore is India’s cleanest city for the fourth time in a row and Chhattisgarh is 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 organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban affairs (MoUHA). Gujarat’s Surat gets the second place and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai is at number three spot in terms of clean cities with 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

Best State (More than 100 ULBs)

Number 2: Maharashtra

Number 3: Madhya Pradesh

Fastest mover state: Odisha (jumped 6 positions since 2019)

Best State (Less than 100 ULBs)

Number 2: Haryana

Number 3: Uttarakhand

Fastest mover state: Assam (jumped 25 ranks since 2019)

In cities with population less than one lakh:

Karad in Maharashtra is the cleanest city

Sawad in Maharashtra got the second position in terms of clean cities in less than one lakh population

Maharashtra scored a hat-trick in the clean city under one lakh population with Lonavla winning the number 3 spot

In cantonment boards: 

Jalandhar cantonment from Punjab was declared the cleanest among 62 surveyed

Delhi cantonment board came in second

City with maximum citizen participation:

Shahjanpur in Uttar Pradesh (Population more than one lakh)

Nandprayag in Uttarakhand (Population less than 1 lakh)

City with 10-40 lakh population category

Cleanest city – Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh

Best self-sustainable city – Rajkot, Gujarat

Fastest mover city – Jodhpur, Rajasthan

City with 3-10 lakh population category:

Cleanest city – Mysuru, Karnataka

Best self-sustainable city – Bhilai Nagar, Chhattisgarh

Fastest mover city – Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh (jumped by 215 positions from 2019)

Small city category:

Capital City Category:

Best self-sustainable capital city – Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

Fastest mover capital city – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh (Improved 95 positions from 2019)

Best Ganga Town Category:

Cleanest City North zone Category: