About: Swachh Survekshan
Swachh Survekshan is a ranking exercise to assess rural and urban areas for their levels of cleanliness and active implementation of Swachhata mission initiatives in a timely and innovative manner.
The objective is to encourage large scale citizen participation and create awareness amongst all sections of society about the importance of working together towards making towns and cities a better place to live in.
Additionally, the survey also intends to foster a spirit of healthy competition among towns and cities to improve their service delivery to citizens, towards creating cleaner cities and towns.
The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India takes up the SwachhSurvekshan in urban areas and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in rural areas.
The Quality Council of India (QCI) has been commissioned the responsibility of carrying out the assessment.
Swachh Survekshan 2019
SwachhSurvekshan 2019 covered 4,237 cities in a record time of 28 days, in a completely paperless, digital format for data collection.
Indore has been awarded the cleanest city in the country in the SwachhSurvekshan 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.
Ambikapur in Chattisgarh got the second prize overall and has become a role model for other towns in the state.
Chhattisgarh has also emerged India’s top performer among states, followed by Jharkhand and Maharashtra.
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