Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022

In Context

• Recently, the President of India presented the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022.

About

• Cleanest City overall:
  • Indore has been adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat has retained the second position.
• Best performing states:
  • Madhya Pradesh secured the first position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra in the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’.
  • Haryana was in the second position while Tamil Nadu was third.
  • Among smaller states and Union territories, Andaman and Nicobar secured the first position followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu and Sikkim.
  • Telangana won the first prize under the large states category under the Swachh Survekshan Grameen (SSG) 2022 which looks into the sanitation status of rural areas.
• Cities with Population:
  • In the category of cities having a population fewer than one lakh, Maharashtra’s Panchgani was ranked number one, followed by Chhattisgarh’s Patan (NP) and Maharashtra’s Karhad.
  • Haridwar was adjudged the cleanest Ganga town in the category of more than 1 lakh population, followed by Varanasi and Rishikesh.
  • Tirupati received the best city award in Safai Mitra Suraksha category.
  • Bijnor was ranked the first among Ganga towns with fewer than one lakh population. followed by Kannauj and Garhmukhteshwar respectively.
  • In the survey, Maharashtra’s Deolali was adjudged the country’s cleanest Cantonment Board.

Source: TH