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Mysore tops Swachh Bharat rankings; Bengaluru 1st among capitals

Mysore tops Swachh Bharat rankings for 476 cities

  • 4 cities from Karnataka in top 10 West Bengal does well with 25 cities in top 100
  • 39 cities from South in top 100
  • 74 cities from North in bottom 100

Mysore city in Karnataka has topped the Swachh Bharat Rankings of 476 cities in the country with three more from the State figuring in the top 10. Given the state of waste management in Dehradun it came as no surprise that the city was “down in the dumps” in terms of rankings with rank of 360 (3rd from bottom among state capitals). West Bengal does well with 25 cities/towns from the State finding a place in the top 100 cities. These rankings are based on the extent of open defecation and solid waste management practices in these cities. The city of Mysore leads the cities with minimal open defecation and extensive adoption of solid waste management practices.

39 cities from the Southern states are among the top 100 followed by 27 from the East, 15 from the West, 12 from the North and 7 from the North-Eastern States.

15 of the 27 capital cities surveyed figured among the top 100 performers while five were ranked beyond 300. Bengaluru leads the list of capitals at 7th rank while Patna came at the bottom at 429.

Among the bottom 100 cities, 74 are from the North, 21 from the East, 3 from the West and 2 from the South.

The top 10 ranked cities being : Mysore, Thiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), Navi Mumbai, Kochi (Kerala), Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru from Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Halisahar (West Bengal) and Gangtok (Sikkim) in that order.

Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) came at the bottom of 476, preceded by Bhind(MP), Palwal and Bhiwani, both in Haryana, Chittaurgarh (Rajasthan), Bulandshahar (UP), Neemuch (MP), Rewari(Haryana), Hindaun (Rajasthan) and Sambalpur in Odisha at 467th rank.

All the 476 Class-1 cities in 31 States and Union Territories, each  with a population of above one lakh were surveyed for assessing  total sanitation practices covering a set of parameters including the extent of open defecation, solid waste management, septage management, waste water treatment, drinking water quality, surface water quality of water bodies and mortality due to water born diseases etc.

The survey conducted during 2014-15 was commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development as required under the National Sanitation Policy of 2008.

Since the Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented in urban areas with focus on construction of individual household, community and public toilets to eradicate open defecation and ensure door-to-door collection and disposal of municipal solid waste, all the 476 Class-1 cities have been ranked based on the data pertaining to these elements from out of the date generated in the survey. This helps in assessing the present situation in these cities so that they can undertake necessary interventions to  meet Swachh Bharat Mission targets in urban areas.

Over all sanitation rankings of these cities based on a total of 100 marks assigned to different parameters covering all aspects would be announced later. The Swachh Bharat rankings are based on a total of 42 marks including 20 for open defecation indicators and 22 for solid waste management indicators.

 

Swachh Bharat ranking of capital cities :

S.No Capital city Swachh Bharat Rank
1 Bengaluru 7
2 Trivendrum 8
3 Gangtok 10
4 New Delhi Municipal Council 16
5 Chandigarh 21
6 Puducherry 23
7 Agartala 32
8 Port Blair 34
9 Aizawl 35
10 Guwahati 51
11 Kolkata 56
12 Chennai 61
13 Dimapur 76
14 Imphal 83
15 Shimla 90
16 Bhopal 106
17 Shillong 120
18 Mumbai 140
19 Srinagar 152
20 Lucknow 220
21 Ranchi 223
22 Hyderabad 275
23 Raipur 293
24 Gandhinagar 310
25 Bhubaneswar 331
26 Dehradun 360
27 Jaipur 370
28 Patna 429

Number of cities surveyed in major States include : UP (61), West Bengal (60), Mharashtra (43), MP(32), Gujarat (30), AP(30), Tamil Nadu(29), Rajasthan(28), Bihar (27), Karnataka (26), Haryana(20), Punjab(16), Telangana (11), Odisha (10), Jharkhand(10), Chattisgarh(9) and 6 each from Kerala, Uttarakhand and North-Eastern states.

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