In Context
- Recently, the President of India presented the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022.
About
- Cleanest City overall:
- Indore has been adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat has retained the second position.
- Best performing states:
- Madhya Pradesh secured the first position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’.
- Haryana was in the second position while Tamil Nadu was third.
- Among smaller states and Union territories, Andaman and Nicobar secured the first position followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Sikkim.
- Telangana won the first prize under the large states category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the sanitation status of rural areas.
- Cities with Population:
- In the category of cities having a 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.
- Tirupati received the best city award in Safai Mitra Suraksha category.
- Bijnor was ranked the first among Ganga towns with fewer than one lakh population. followed by Kannauj and Garhmukhteshwar respectively.
- In the survey, Maharashtra’s Deolali was adjudged the country’s cleanest Cantonment Board.
Source: TH
