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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs released the Swachh Survekshan 2022 Saturday. With two cities in the top 10, Madhya Pradesh emerged as the best-performing state in India.
Indore is Madhya Pradesh’s largest and most populated city. A responsible & responsive public, and an army of 'safai mitras', are key allies in this city's successful cleanliness drive.
While Surat & Vijayawada followed Indore in category of top 3 cities with over 1 lakh population, 3 Maharashtra towns — Vita, Lonavala & Saswad — judged cleanest among towns with below 1 lakh population.
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This is the 5th cleanliness survey since 2016 and has covered 4,242 cities in 28 days with the help of digitised and paperless feedback from over 1.9 crore citizens.
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The survey is politically biased. I have been to Kalyani, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, New Town, Vizag, Indore, Mumbai , Bangalore and New Delhi.. I can say that personally that
1. Gurgaon is more dirty and marred with construction work without any planning. Last week I visited Gurgaon and there was no access to Microsoft / Deloitte and Google offices due to unplanned construction work.. There was a time Gurgaon was clean and planned but not today . Same holds for Bangalore.
2. Indore is clean but the same level of cleanliness is available at Kalyani and Bidhannagar.. The persons questioning this assessment should visit both the towns / cities and then pass judgement. The cleaniless of the towns is however super passed by New Town which being a newer township is better planned and clean.
3. Vizag was the only place which I really find clean and highly recommended.
4. For mumbai and delhi they are overhyped as per cleanliness is concerned. Being metro they are at par with all other metros.
The survey is politically biased. I have been to Kalyani, Bidhannagar, Durgapur, New Town, Vizag, Indore, Mumbai , Bangalore and New Delhi.. I can say that personally that
1. Gurgaon is more dirty and marred with construction work without any planning. Last week I visited Gurgaon and there was no access to Microsoft / Deloitte and Google offices due to unplanned construction work.. There was a time Gurgaon was clean and planned but not today . Same holds for Bangalore.
2. Indore is clean but the same level of cleanliness is available at Kalyani and Bidhannagar.. The persons questioning this assessment should visit both the towns / cities and then pass judgement. The cleaniless of the towns is however super passed by New Town which being a newer township is better planned and clean.
3. Vizag was the only place which I really find clean and highly recommended.
4. For mumbai and delhi they are overhyped as per cleanliness is concerned. Being metro they are at par with all other metros.