Puri congratulates winners of Swachh Survekshan 2018

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New Delhi : Union Minister for Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Puri on May 16, 2018,  congratulated the winners of Swachh Survekshan 2018 while announcing the results at the National Media Centre here. Indore, MP, has been adjudged India’s Cleanest City while Bhoopal, MP, has been rated as India’s Cleanest City n0 2. Chandigarh has been rated as India’s Cleanest City N0 3.

The Swachh Survekshan 2018 organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the aegis of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) assessed 4,203 Urban Local Bodies.  The exercise undertaken between January 4, 2018, to March 10, 2018, enhanced the scope to cover a record number of Urban Local Bodies impacting around 40 crore urban citizens across the country and involved 2700 assessors.  As compared to  2017 where Swachh Survekshan was conducted in 434 cities, this year the scope was enhanced manifold, according to a PIB release.

During Swachh Survekshan 2018, a record number of 37.66 lakh citizen’s feedbacks were collected and 53.58 lakh Swachhata Apps downloaded.  The total number of interactions on Swachhata App by citizens were around 1.18 crore.

Based on the performance in Swacch Survekshan, 2018, it has been decided to confer awards 29 cities/ cantonment boards at National Level, 20 cities at Zonal Level and 3 states having the best performance in the urban areas. While deciding the awards, it has been kept in mind that one city gets only one award i.e the category in which it has performed the best. In case a city has already been awarded in some category, next best is awarded in the other category.

In 2016, Swachh Survekshan was conducted in 73 cities having a population of one million or more and capital city of States/ UTs and Mysore had bagged the award of being the cleanest city of India.  In 2017, the scope of Swachh Survekshan was enlarged to cover 434 cities having a population of one lakh or more and Capital city of states/ UTs and Indore was awarded as cleanest city of India.