Swachh Survekshan Awards, 2021
- Indore was ranked the cleanest city for the fifth consecutive year by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in its annual cleanliness ranking.
- Among cities, Surat and Vijayawada secured the second and third place, respectively.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency, Varanasi, won the award for the cleanest “Ganga city”.
- The cleanest State honour was awarded to Chhattisgarh for the third time, in the category of States with more than 100 urban local bodies.
- The Ministry said the survey was carried out in 4,320 cities over 28 days, where feedback from 4.2 crore persons was recorded.
- Of States with over 100 urban local bodies (ULBs), Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh were ranked second and third respectively.
- Jharkhand was judged the cleanest State with less than 100 ULBs, followed by Haryana and Goa.
- Among cities with population over 1 lakh, Indore, Surat, Vijayawada, Navi Mumbai, New Delhi, Ambikapur, Tirupati, Pune, Noida and Ujjain were the top 10, in that order.
- Of cities with population less than 1 lakh, Maharashtra’s Vita was the cleanest, followed by Lonavala and Sasvad.
- The New Delhi Municipal Council’s area was ranked the cleanest in the category of cities with 1-3 lakh population.
- Noida was named the cleanest among medium-sized cities, that is with 3 lakh to 10 lakh population. Among the big cities with population of 10 lakh to 40 lakh, Navi Mumbai was ranked the cleanest.