Clean City Award 2022
The president of India released Swachh Survekshan 2022 awards.
Clean City : Population more than 1 lakh
- Indore city bagged cleanest city title for the sixth consecutive year in the more than 1 lakh population today whereas Surat gets second spot second time in a row, Navi Mumbai gets third spot.
Clean City : Population less than 1 lakh
- Panchgani and Karad from Maharashtra bagged the first and third position respectively whereas Patan from Chhattisgarh bagged second spot.
- Tirupati gets best city award in the Safai Mitra Suraksha whereas Haridwar in Uttarakhand received award for the bet Ganga town in the more than one lakh population category. Shivamogga in Karnataka received the fast mover city award. Maharashtra bagged the first and third position respectively while Patan from Chhattisgarh bagged 2nd position.
- Indore is emerged as India’s first 7-star Garbage Free city while Surat, Bhopal, Mysuru, Navi Mumbai, Vishakhapatnam and Tirupati emerged as 5 star garbage free certifications.
- Madhya Pradesh emerged as the ‘Cleanest State’ in the category of “more than 100 Urban Local Bodies”, leaving behind Chhattisgarh, the Cleanest State of the previous 3 years, to second place. Maharashtra emerged as third cleanest State.
- Similarly, Tripura emerged as the Cleanest State award in the “less than 100 ULBs category”, leaving behind Jharkhand, which had won in the last 2 consecutive years. Jharkhand and Uttarakhand received the second and third spots respectively.