New Delhi: The city of Ahmedabad has been declared cleanest big city and best city in solid waste management in the Swachch Survekshan 2019. Visavdar in Gujarat has been declared west zone’s fastest moving city in less than 1 lakh population segment. Upleta has been declared fastest mover city in west zone in 50,000 to 1 lakh population segment. Bagasara has been declared fastest mover city in west zone in 25,000 to 50,000 population category. Talala has been declared fastest mover city in west zone in segment of population upto 25,000.

Gujarat has been declared fastest mover state. Among 4237 cities assesses Rajkot has got overall rank no. 12. Gandhinagar has received garbage free city 3 star rating so as Ahmedabad, Rajkot and Surat.

Indore has been awarded the cleanest city in the country in the Swachh Survekshan 2019 (SS 2019) awards while Bhopal has been declared as the cleanest capital. Ujjain has bagged the award for being the cleanest city in the population category of 3 lakh to 10 lakh.

The awards were presented by the President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind at a function here today. Sh Hardeep S Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs, Sh Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary, MOHUA and awardees from all over the country were present at the function.

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MoHUA conducted its first survey ‘Swachh Survekshan-2016’ survey for ranking 73 cities (Urban Local Bodies), in January 2016, under the ambit of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). In order to expand the coverage of cities, the Ministry conducted its second survey ‘Swachh Survekshan-2017’ in January-February 2017, to rank 434 cities. ‘Swachh Survekshan 2018’ saw a massive increase in both scale of survey and intensity of participation, with 4,203 cities covered in last year’s survey. Swachh Survekshan 2019 has scaled even greater heights, covering 4,237 cities, and that too, in a record time of 28 days, in a completely paperless, digital format for data collection! Moreover, even in this short span of time, assessors managed to visit nearly 73,000 wards, 21,000 commercial areas, 69,000 residential areas, 75,000 community/public toilets, and more than 3100 waste to compost plants across the country.

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