Eighteen out of the 25 dirtiest cities in India with population of over 1 lakh are in West Bengal, a government report released on Saturday showed. Jharkhand is the cleanest state, followed by Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, the report found. The government had released a list of awards for the best-performing cities and states last month but did not announce the whole index. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the report, based on a nationwide cleanliness survey by the Union Housing and Urban Affairs ministry, on Saturday. Tripura was at the bottom of the list of cleanest states, followed by Puducherry, Nagaland and West Bengal. West Bengal had not participated in the surveys in 2016 and 2017, according to the Hindustan Times. Indore was adjudged the cleanest city for the second straight year, Bhopal at second position and Chandigarh at third. The survey, first conducted in 2016, studied 4,203 urban local bodies between January and March. The survey this year also featured cantonment boards. The list of cantonment boards was topped by Delhi Cantonment. The survey ranked cities on the basis of their performance in six parameters, including collection and transportation of municipal solid waste, their processing and disposal, sanitation related progress, innovation and best practices adapted by cities. South Delhi Municipal Corporation rose to 32nd position from its previous rank of 202. The New Delhi Municipal Council was adjudged India’s cleanest small city.<doc-sep>The cleanest states in India include Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh while West Bengal, Nagaland, Puducherry and Tripura are the dirtiest states as per the survey results. | Photo Credit: BCCL Kolkata: The result of this year’s Swachh Survekshan shows that the 19 out of 25 dirtiest cities in India are from West Bengal. The nationwide cleanliness survey, Swachh Survekshan is conducted by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry in various cities and towns across India. This year the list is topped by Indore but Bhadreshwar in Gujarat is at the bottom. West Bengal participated for the first time in the annual survey and results are shocking. In 2017 as well in 2016, there was no participation from the state. The cities in West Bengal, including Darjeeling, Siliguri, Serampore, Madhyamgram, etc. are lacking behind the rest of the country in basic cleanliness and sanitation parameters like waste collection, open defecation, solid waste processing and disposal. Apart from West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are among the dirtiest states occupying the bottom positions in the list. West Bengal scored 28th position, while Bihar stood on the 23rd rank and Uttar Pradesh on 18th rank in Swachh Survekshan. The cleanliness survey officials inspected over 4,203 urban bodies between January to March. As per the annual Swachh Survekshan tradition, these bodies were then ranked on waste collection, open defecation, cleanliness and sanitation, solid waste processing and disposal. The ranking is done as per the population of the urban local body. The cleanest states in India include Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Chhattisgarh while West Bengal, Nagaland, Puducherry, and Tripura are the dirtiest states as per the survey results. In the cities with a population of 10 lakh and above, Vijayawada has managed to emerge as the ‘large’ cleanest city. With a population range of three to 19 lakh, Mysuru is India’s ‘medium’ cleanest city. In the category of ‘small’ cities with population less than three lakh but more than a lakh, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has emerged as a topper.<doc-sep>Indore, Jun 24 (PTI) Eight of the ten worst performing cities in the recently concluded Swachh Survekshan 2018 were from West Bengal, including last ranked Bhadreswar, in a list of 485 cities. The Bhadreswar town, in WB's Hooghly district, managed to score just 448.33 points out of a total 4,000 points, and stood last in a list of 485 cities, having a population of more than one lakh, that were surveyed. Madhya Pradesh's Indore, on the other end of the spectrum, had notched up 3,707.01 points out of 4,000. Of the ten worst cities that made up the rear, only Simari Bakhtiyarpur (Bihar) at rank 482 with 550.07 points and Chandbali at 479 with 586.71 points were from outside WB. Bankura, at 484th spot, North Barrackpore at rank 483, Champdani at rank 481, Bansberia at 480, Khardah, Baidaybati and Panihati at ranks 478, 477 and 476 respectively completed the list of ignominy for the eastern state. The top ten cities comprised Indore, Bhopal (3688.94 points), Chandigarh (3649.38), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) (3597.19), Vijayawada (3580.24), Tirupati (3575.8), Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation (GVMC) (3546.5), Mysore (3539.58), Navi Mumbai (3536.23) and Pune (3471.34 points). Among the states, Jharkhand took first position while Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh bagged second and third place. The awards were given away by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a grand function held in Indore yesterday. The Swachh Survekshan 2018 assessed 4,203 Urban Local Bodies, impacting 40 crore citizens, and was organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), under the aegis of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). The exercise was undertaken by 2,700 assessors between January 4 and March 10 this year and feedback from a record number of 37.66 lakh citizens was collected. Apart from this, 53.58 lakh Swachhata Apps were downloaded and the total number of interactions on the apps by citizens were around 1.18 crore. PTI HWP ADU BNM RCJ RCJ<doc-sep>
Jharkhand - which was placed among the dirtiest states in the country in the 2016 edition of the Swachh Survekshan - has emerged as the cleanest state in this year’s survey, Hindustan Times has reported. According to the survey report, which was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Indore on Saturday, 19 out of the 25 dirtiest cities in India are from West Bengal. Cities in the state, including Darjeeling, Siliguri, Madhyamgram, North Barrackpore, Bankura, fared low on all sanitation indicators such as waste collection, open defecation, solid waste processing and disposal. West Bengal is among the bottom four dirtiest states in the country, followed by Nagaland, Puducherry and Tripura. West Bengal had not participated in the survey in 2016 and 2017. Criticising the Modi government’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2015, West Bengal Chief Minister had said that the scheme is not new and has been implemented in the state in the last 2-3 years under project Nirmal Bangla. Madhya Pradesh's Indore and Bhopal emerged as the cleanest cities in the country. This is the second consecutive time that Indore has received the tag. Chandigarh and New Delhi emerged as the third and fourth cleanest cities. Th survey ranked the cities based on of their performance in six parameters - collection and transportation of solid waste, processing and disposal of this waste, progress on sanitation, innovation and best practices adapted by cities. Cantonments, run by the army, were included in the survey for the first time this year. Delhi Cantonment Board emerged as the cleanest, followed by Almora and Ranikhet cantonments in the second and third positions respectively.