Hyderabad jumps to 26 in Swacch Sarvekshan rankings

Hyderabad: Hyderabad improved its position in the Swachh Survekshan rankings from last year’s 37 to 26 in the latest list of top 100 urban local bodies based on total score. President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday released the rankings of the Centre’s annual cleanliness survey

Secunderabad was adjudged the best city in ‘citizen feedback’ (cantonment board) category while Badangpet was deemed the cleanest city in the 50,000 to one lakh population category.

Apart from Hyderabad, cities from Telangana, Siddipet (30), Warangal (84) and Karimnagar (89) also featured on the list.

Indore topped the list for cities with over one lakh population for the sixth consecutive year, with Surat, Navi Mumbai, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada (AP) rounding off the top five.

In the same category, for cities or towns with a population of less than one lakh, Badangpet is the only place from Telangana, with Maharashtra’s Panchgani and Chhattisgarh’s Patan topping the list.

In the ranking of cantonment boards based on total score, Secunderabad Cantonment secured the fourth position. The list was headed by Deolali (Maharashtra) and Ahmedabad (Gujarat).

Telangana also received 17 Swachh Sarvekshan awards under various categories. 

The surveys for the rankings are conducted under the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA)  to recognise the work done for cleanliness by towns/cities, states and Union Territories under various initiatives of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

President Murmu gave away the awards to the winners at an event here also attended by Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others.

The 7th edition of Swachh Survekshan was conducted to study the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and rank the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) based on various cleanliness and sanitation parameters.

The Survekshan has evolved from being an assessment of 73 cities in 2016        to covering 4,354 cities this year.