Mysuru cleanest city of India

This is the second such survey carried out as part of the government’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission to make India clean and open defecation free by 2019.

The top 10 cities in terms of sanitation and hygiene in order of rank are: Mysuru, Chandigarh, Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), New Delhi Municipal Council, Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Surat, Rajkot (Gujarat), Gangtok (Sikkim), Pimpri Chindwad and Greater Mumbai (Maharashtra).

Ministry of Urban Development had in October previous year commissioned a survey of sanitation scenario in 75 major cities including 53 with a population of above 10 lakhs each and state capitals.

Unfortunately, the “Swachhta Sarvekshan” that covered 73 cities with a population of over 1 million ranked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi among the top ten dirtiest cities of India.

The other towns who are at the bottom of the list are Dhanbad in Jharkhand, Bengal’s Asansol and Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar.

For the findings were done on the basis of marks scored by the cities in the main components of Swachh Bharat Mission.

The result of Swach Survekshan (cleanliness survey) was announced by Union Minister of Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu.

Kolkata and Noida will participate in the next round, hence the ranking this year is for 73 cities. While East Delhi Municipal Corporation was ranked 52, North and South Delhi Municipal Corporation were 43 and 39, respectively.

Mysuru has emerged as the cleanest city in India in a survey ranking of 73 cities across the country.

The various parameters on which the cities were ranked include – availability of infrastructure and service levels pertaining to sanitation such as individual household toilets, public and community toilets and collection, transportation and processing of municipal solid waste.

The survey teams took a total of 3,066 geo-tagged photos of places visited as evidence and they were uploaded on website on Monday.

Mysore, the city of gardens in Karnataka, built by kings, is the cleanest city in India.

The new survey identifies not just the cleanest cities but those demonstrating significant improvement, as well as the stragglers that need to do much better. Over one lakh citizens responded with their feedback on cleanliness in respective cities making the survey of 2016 evidence based and participatory.