Swachh Survekshan 2020 results announced, Indore once again retains top spot

Indore is India’s cleanest metropolis in Swachh Survekshan 2020, the fifth version of the annual cleanliness survey of the nation.

The metropolis has bagged the spot fourth time in a row. Gujarat’s Surat on second spot and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on third.

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In the class of inhabitants of lower than 1 lakh, Maharashtra’s Karad bagged the primary place, adopted by state’s Saswad and Lonavala.

Best performing states by way of total efficiency have been divided in two categories- states with over 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and states with lower than 100 ULBs. In the primary class, Chhattisgarh bagged the award for the second time and Jharkhand gained the award within the second class.

India’s Cleanest Cantonment Board award was bagged by Jalandhar cantonment from Punjab and Best Ganga Town award was given to Varanasi.

Best metropolis by way of most citizen’s participation award within the class of inhabitants of over 1 lakh has been given to Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur. In the identical class for cities with inhabitants much less that 1 lakh, the award was bagged by Uttarakhand’s Nandaprayag.

Cleanest metropolis with over 40 lakh inhabitants award was gained by Ahmedabad and Vijayawada gained within the class of metropolis with inhabitants between 10 lakh to 40 lakh. Fastest mover massive metropolis award was gained by Rajasthan’s Jodhpur. Gujarat’s Rajkot gained the very best self sustainable metropolis award. In the class of three to 10 lakh inhabitants, cleanest metropolis award went to Karnataka’s Mysuru.

Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad gained quickest mover metropolis in three lakh to 10 lakh inhabitants class. In the identical inhabitants class, Pilai of Chattisgarh gained the very best self sustainable metropolis award.

Cleanest small metropolis award in 1 lakh to three lakh inhabitants class went to Chattisgarh’s Ambikapur.

A complete of 129 high performing cities and states have been awarded by Minister of Civil Aviation of India Hardeep Singh Puri within the digital programme known as ‘Swachh Mahotsav’. This programme was organised by the ministry of housing and concrete affairs. PM Modi, who was initially presupposed to announce the outcomes, couldn’t attend the occasion.

Mysuru had gained the award for the cleanest metropolis of India within the first version of the survey, whereas Indore has retained the highest place for 3 consecutive years (2017,2018, 2019).