New Delhi: The Quality Council of India survey has ranked Mysuru at the top in terms of cleanliness again after 2014, followed by Chandigarh, Tiruchirappalli and NDMC area of the national capital. Visakhapatnam, Surat, Rajkot, Gangtok, Pimpri-Chindwad (Maharashtra) were also among the top ten clean cities. The least clean cities included Dhanbad, Asansol
Itanagar, Patna, Meerut, Raipur, Ghaziabad, Jamshedpur, Varanasi and Kalyan Dombivili. The rankings of the Swachh Survekshan Survey, conducted by QCI, were announced by Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu in the national capital.
As part of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’, the survey was commissioned across 73 cities, including 51 cities that have a population of over 10 lakh each and 22 capital cities that do not have that much population. Naidu said cities from South and West continue to do well overall but those in other parts of the country, particularly, in the North are beginning to catch up with the traditional leaders.
“This is meant to help the cities know where they stand in absolute terms and in relation to others besides what more needs to be done by each city to ensure sanitation,” he said.
