Mysuru cleanest, Varanasi ranks poor among 73 cities surveyed
New Delhi: For the second time in a row, Mysuru was on Monday ranked cleanest city, followed by Chandigarh, while Dhanbad in Jharkhand came at the bottom of 73 major cities surveyed for sanitation scenario last month.
Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has poor score on the cleanliness count, ranking 65th in a survey conducted by the Quality Council of India. as per the first survey after the launch of ‘Swachh Bharat’ mission in 2014.
Despite aspiring to become a smart city, Shillong was ranked 53rd among the 73 city surveyed for cleanliness by the Union Government.
The survey, which was released by Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu here, covered 73 cities including 51 cities with more than 10 lakh population on cleanliness and sanitation.
“Swachh Survekshan-2016 is primarily intended to measure the impact of the efforts under Swachh Bharat Mission launched after the survey of 2014,” Naidu added.
While Mysuru has topped the list followed by Chandigarh, Tiruchirappalli and NDMC area of the national capital, Dhanbad in Jharkhand has been ranked the worst.The city of palaces was ranked first in the list of 476 cities last year. Other cities which have found place in 10 cleanest category in the Survey, conducted by Quality Council of India, include Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Surat (Gujarat), Rajkot (Gujarat), Gangtok (Sikkim), Pimpri-Chindwad (Maharashtra) and Greater Maharashtra.
The least clean cities included Dhanbad (Jharkhand), Asansol (West Bengal), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Meerut (Uttar Pradesh), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) and Kalyan Dombivili (Maharashtra).
Shillong is ranked 53rd among those which scored in the range of 50%-60%. These cities need to accelerate their efforts.
But the Scotland of the East was saved from the Slow Movers tag who scored below 50% are named who need to work harder to improve sanitation.
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh),Surat and Rajkot, both form Gujarat and Gangtok(Sikkim) improved their ranks to break into top 10 clean cities in this year’s survey.
The bottom 10 cities are : Kalyan Dombivili (Maharshtra-ranked 64), Varanasi, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Ghaziabad (UP), Raipur (Chattisgarh), Meerut (UP), Patna (Bihar), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Asansol (West Bengal) and Dhanbad, ranked 73.
Among the North East cities Gangtok is ranked 8th, Imphal got 15th rank. Agartala secured 33rd rank and Guwahati made it to 50th spot.