Clean City Rankings

The Govt has announced the following ranks of clean cities. Can everyone review them and share if they actually make sense. Few citiese done well consistently like Indore but I hear a lot of cosmetic changes in some cities to game the rankings. Like to hear more

Cleanest city awards for cities with population above 1 lakh -

• Indore (Madhya Pradesh)

• Surat (Gujarat)

• Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Cleanest city awards for cities with population below 1 lakh -

• Karad (Maharashtra)

• Saswad (Maharashtra)

• Lonavla (Maharashtra)

Cleanest state with more than 100 cities - Chhattisgarh

Cleanest state with less than 100 cities - Jharkhand

Cleanest Ganga town - Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)

Maximum citizen participation in keeping city areas clean - Shahjahanpur

Cleanest megacity with more than 40 lac population - Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

Best self-sustainable cities with population above 40 lakh-

• Bengaluru (Karnataka)

• Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)

Fastest-moving city in terms of cleanliness - Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

Self-sustainable city in terms of cleanliness (more than 10 lakh population) - Rajkot (Gujarat)

Self-sustainable city in terms of cleanliness (less than 10 lakh population) - Mysuru (Karnataka)

Cleanest small cities -

• Ambikapur (Chattisgarh)

• Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh)

Cleanest city with population between 1 lakh to 3 lakh - Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh)

Cleanest capital city - New Delhi (Union Territory of New Delhi) and the NDMC.

Also Read: Swachh Survekshan 2020: All you need to know about India’s cleanliness survey

Fastest moving cleanest capital city - Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

Fastest moving self-sustainable cleanest capital city - Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)

Cleanest Ganga towns -

• Kanauj (Uttar Pradesh)

• Chunar (Uttar Pradesh)

Cleanest city in the north Zone -

• Gangaghat (Uttar Pradesh)

Cleanest city in the north Zone (pop. 25k - 50k) -

• Nawashahar (Punjab)

Cleanest city in the north Zone (pop. below 25k) -

• Awagarh (Uttar Pradesh)

Cleanest city northeast Zone -

• Jorhat (Assam)

Cleanest city in the northeast Zone (pop. 25k - 50k) -

• Mokukchung (Nagaland)

Cleanest city in the northeast Zone (pop. below 25k) -

• Jiribam (Manipur)

Cleanest cities in the east zone -

• Dhamtari (Odisha)

• Jashpur Nagar (Chhattisgarh)

• Patan (Gujarat)

Cleanest cities in the south zone -

• Palamaneru (Andhra Pradesh)

• Medchal (Telangana)

• Periyapatna (Karnataka)

Cleanest cities in the western zone -

• Ratnagiri (Maharashtra)

• Shirdi (Maharashtra)

• Panhala (Maharashtra)

Cleanest cantonments in the country -

• Jalandhar Cantt.

• Delhi Cantt.

• Meerut Cantt.

Cities awarded for citizen-led awareness towards cleanliness -

• Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)

• Karimnagar (Telangana)

• Sihora (Madhya Pradesh)

Best performing state with more than 100 cities -

• Maharashtra

Best performing state with less than 100 cities -

• Madhya Pradesh more