Team News Riveting
New Delhi, August 20
Indore is the cleanest city in the country in Swachh Survekshan 2020, the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of India. The Madhya Pradesh’s commercial city has bagged the spot fourth time in a row.
Gujarat’s Surat on second spot and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on third.
Chhattisgarh was awarded the first place in the states with over 100 cities while Jharkhand bagged it for being the state in the category of states with less than 100 cities.
Among the towns along the banks of river Ganga, Varanasi has been awarded the cleanest town award while Jalandhar Cantonment Board was conferred the cleanest cantonment board in the country.
Ahmedabad in Gujarat was awarded for being the cleanest city with over 40 lakh population.
About 11 million people participated in the survey of 4242 cities, 62 cantonment boards and 92 towns along the Ganga river this year.
Swachh Survekshan was introduced by the government with the objective of generating large-scale citizen participation in the Mission, along with inculcating a spirit of healthy competition among cities towards becoming India’s cleanest cities.
