Indore Ranked 25th in Cleanest Cities in India
The List of Cleanest Cities in India is out. Mysore has ranked the Cleanest City again and with a drastic improvement in its earlier ranking Chandigarh spot the second position. The Government has surveyed 73 cities with a population of more than 10 lakhs, including 53 with a population of over 1 million people.
Indore comes under the tags of Cities having the potential to lead the pack and stands on Number 25.
A statement issued by the Urban Development Ministry said that the objective of the survey was to assess the impact of Swachh Bharat Mission.
The results declared by the urban development ministry at a news conference in New Delhi. The City Administrations were analysed on how they manage solid waste, Number of toilets built and the success of their sanitation strategy.
The 25 teams of surveyors were formed who surveyed 42 locations in each city, Including the railway and bus stations, religious places, markets, residential areas and toilet complexes. More than 3000 photographs had been taken by them.
One lakh Ordinary Citizens also participated in the survey; several questions were asked of them like whether the city has been always clean, if there were a dustbins, and the availability of toilets.
Dhanbad, the city of Jharkhand, was in the bottom.
List of Top 10 Cleanest Cities:
Mysore, Karnataka
Chandigarh
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
New Delhi
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Surat, Gujarat
Rajkot, Gujarat
Gangtok, Sikkim
Pimpri Chinchwad, Maharashtra
Greater Mumbai, Maharashtra
List of cities at Bottom 10:
Kalyan, Maharashtra
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Raipur, Chhattisgarh
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Patna, Bihar
Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
Asansol, West Bengal
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
The Survey was conducted by the Quality Council of India. The ministry of Urban development said that the marking was done as of the total marks for each city, 60% were assigned for solid waste management, 30% for toilet construction and 5% each for sanitation strategy and behaviour change communication.
