Bengal's dismal showing in the 2023 Swachh Survekshan survey has sparked outrage and raised questions about the result’s validity. But the state’s cities still fall far short on cleanliness.
Of towns on the Ganges, Varanasi was ranked cleanest in the Swachh Survekshan survey 2023, with Prayagraj and Bijnor finishing a close second and third.
Inspired by protest in neighbouring locality, Kalwari residents put up posters 'renaming' their colonies to draw govt's attention towards poor infra & mounds of garbage in the area.
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.
The episode comes as the administration of Indore, adjudged India's cleanest city four times in a row, tries to keep it neat with eye on topping Swachh Survekshan 2021.
Beyond political blame and jibes, the news of Patna’s ranking has more or less sunk without much of an informed debate among policy makers or the media in Bihar.
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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