New Delhi (NVI): Indore city in Madhya Pradesh has been ranked the cleanest city in India for the fourth time in Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (SS League 2020) among the cities where population is more than 10 lakh.
Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri announced the results of Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (Quarter 1 and Quarter 2) here today.
According to the Swachh Survekshan League 2020, Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal ranked second in the first-quarter results (April-June), while Gujarat’s Rajkot grabbed the second spot in second-quarter results (July-September).
The third position was bagged by Gujarat’s Surat in the first quarter and Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra in the second quarter. This time, a total of 4,237 cities participated in the league.
Speaking at the event, Puri said that Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) launched in October 2014 by the prime minister has completed five years of its journey. Today, urban India has become Open Defecation Free1. More importantly, there has been a perceptible and visible change in the condition of public toilets in the country.
“The focus of the Ministry has always been on ensuring the sustainability of the sanitation value chain as is evident in the SS 2020 parameters where wastewater treatment and reuse, and faecal sludge management have been given special attention,” he said.
“The ODF+, ODF++ and Water+ Plus Protocols by the Ministry work as the guiding document for cities in this regard,” he added.
Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (SS League 2020) was introduced with the objective of sustaining the onground performance of cities along with continuous monitoring of service level performance when it comes to cleanliness.
SS League 2020 is being conducted in 3 quarters, that is April- June, July – September and October- December 2019 and has 2000 marks for each quarter evaluated on the basis of monthly updation of SBM-U online MIS by cities along with citizen’s validation on the 12 service level progress indicators through outbound calls.
Ranks have been assigned in two categories, namely, cities with population of one lakh and above (with two sub-categories, that is 1-10 lakh and 10 lakhs and above) and cities with population of less than 1 lakh (under the < 1 lakh population category, the rankings are given zone and population wise).
The performance of cities in SS League 2020 is crucial to their ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2020 due to the 25% weightage of the quarterly assessments to be included in the annual survey scheduled to commence from January 4 till January 31 2020.
the fifth edition of the annual urban cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA),Government of India, scheduled to commence from 4 January 2020 across India, was also rolled out on the occasion.
