Tripura has bagged the top rank among the states having fewer than 100 urban local bodies in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey.
The results were announced Saturday.
Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots.
In the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’, Madhya Pradesh has secured the first position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.
Indore and Surat retained their top positions in the big cities category this year, while Vijaywada lost its third spot to Navi Mumbai.
President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday gave away the awards to the winners at an event here, attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others.
In the category of cities having population fewer than one lakh, Maharashtra’s Panchgani was ranked number one, followed by Chhattisgarh’s Patan (NP) and Maharashtra’s Karhad.
Haridwar was adjudged the cleanest Ganga town in the category of more than 1 lakh population, followed by Varanasi and Rishikesh.
Maharashtra’s Deolali was adjudged the country’s cleanest Cantonment Board.
The 7th edition of Swachh Survekshan was conducted to study the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and rank the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) based on various cleanliness and sanitation parameters.
The Survekshan has evolved from being an assessment of 73 cities in 2016 to covering 4,354 cities this year.
The reward has bolstered the morale of the people and officials concerned . “Of course such an award is important and it would certainly give impetus to our endeavours for keeping the cities clean”, said an official.
(Courtesy Tripura Times)
