The Latest

Indore Crowned India’s Cleanest City 4th Year In A Row, Here Are Other Cities On The List

byAakriti Agarwal
20th August 2020
3 minute read

The results of the Swacch Survekshan Awards 2020 were announced by Union Housing today. It is the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country, and the city of Indore bagged the top spot for ‘India’s Cleanest City (Population > 1 lakh)’ category for the fourth consecutive time. It had previously topped the list in the years 2017, 2018, and 2019. Surat in Gujarat ranked on the second position this year, while Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra came in third.

As per a report in TOI, Hardeep Singh Puri, who is the Union Minister of Civil Aviation, took to Twitter to congratulate Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj S Chouhan and Indore’s civic authorities for the city’s exponential win. See the tweet here:-

The Union Minister also tweeted to congratulate Jalandhar Cantt for being awarded as India’s cleanest cantonment this year:-

News18 reports that Pratibha Pal, who is the commissioner of the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC), had launched a ‘Safai Mahotsav’ on August 14. The aim of the public campaign was to reportedly encourage people to participate in the cleanliness of the city as the municipality’s sanitation workers were on leave that day to the festival of Goga Navmi.

She said, “The participation by the locals in this campaign was a celebration and many took pride in themselves. The spirit of cleanliness is ingrained in the blood of ‘Indories’.”

Image Source

As usual, Twitter rained memes congratulating Indore’s repeated wins in the most hilarious way:-

As per HT, here’s the complete list of awarded cities this year:-

1. Cleanest city awards for cities with population above 1 lakh –

• Indore (Madhya Pradesh)

• Surat (Gujarat)

• Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra)

2. Cleanest city awards for cities with population below 1 lakh –

• Karad (Maharashtra)

• Saswad (Maharashtra)

• Lonavla (Maharashtra)

3. Cleanest state with more than 100 cities – Chhattisgarh

4. Cleanest state with less than 100 cities – Jharkhand

5. Cleanest Ganga town – Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)

6. Maximum citizen participation in keeping city areas clean – Shahjahanpur

7. Cleanest megacity with more than 40 lac population – Ahmedabad (Gujarat)

8. Best self-sustainable cities with population above 40 lakh–

• Bengaluru (Karnataka)

• Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)

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

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

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

12. Cleanest small cities –

• Ambikapur (Chattisgarh)

• Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh)

13. Cleanest city with population between 1 lakh to 3 lakh – Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh)

14. Cleanest capital city – New Delhi (Union Territory of New Delhi)

15. Fastest moving cleanest capital city – Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)

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

17. Cleanest Ganga towns –

• Kanauj (Uttar Pradesh)

• Chunar (Uttar Pradesh)

18. Cleanest city in the North Zone –

• Gangaghat (Uttar Pradesh)

19. Cleanest city in the North Zone (pop. 25k – 50k) –

• Nawashahar (Punjab)

20. Cleanest city in the North Zone (pop. below 25k) –

• Awagarh (Uttar Pradesh)

21. Cleanest city northeast Zone –

• Jorhat (Assam)

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

• Mokukchung (Nagaland)

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

• Jiribam (Manipur)

24. Cleanest cities east zone –

• Dhamtari (Odisha)

• Jashpur Nagar (Chhattisgarh)

• Patan (Gujarat)

Hearty congratulations to all the winners. Did your city win big this time? Tell us!

Cover Image Source- Left, Right

📣 Storypick is now on Telegram! Click here to join our channel (@storypick) and never miss another great story.