Why in News: The Swachh Survekshan awards were given away by President Droupadi Murmu
- Surat in Gujarat and Indore in Madhya Pradesh were jointly declared the cleanest cities of India at the annual clean city awards for 2023 of the Union Urban Affairs Ministry.
- The next best is Navi Mumbai.
- Indore has been adjudged the cleanest city for the seventh time in a row.
The theme of the cleanliness survey
- 2023 – “Waste to wealth”,
- 2024 – “Reduce, reuse and recycle”.
The top 10 cleanest cities with a population of more than one lakh
- Indore
- Surat
- Navi Mumbai
- Greater Visakhapatnam,
- Bhopal,
- Vijayawada,
- New Delhi,
- Tirupati,
- Greater Hyderabad and
- Pune.
The State rankings
- Maharashtra
- Pradesh and
- Chhattisgarh
- Odisha
- Telangana
- Andhra Pradesh
- Punjab
- Gujarat
- Uttar Pradesh
- Tamil Nadu
- Sikkim
- Karnataka
- Goa
- Haryana
- Bihar.
In the category of cities with a population of less than one lakh
- Sasvad and Lonavala in Maharashtra and
- Patan in Chhattisgarh secured the top three spots.
Cleanest cantonment Board
- The Mhow Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh.
cleanest Ganga towns
- Varanasi and Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh won the top two awards for the.
The safest city for sanitation workers
- Chandigarh.
Twenty zonal awards were given to medium and small cities.
- Madhyamgram, Kalyani and Haora, all cities in West Bengal,
States at the end of the list
- Rajasthan, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.
Source: TH
