List of cleanest cities in India

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The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India, annually publish National City Rating under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan scheme. The rating includes around 500 cities, covering 72 percent of the urban population in India.

Until 2017, India was divided into five zones for the purpose of this survey and each city was scored on 19 indicators. The cities were classified into four colours: green, blue, black, and red, green being the cleanest city, and red the most polluted. None of the cities was rated as green—the best category in the exercise. However, during the 2017-18 senses survey, the parameters of assessment were modified, and cities were categorised, based on population, into metropolis, large, medium, and small cities, and assessment took place according to this categorisation.[1]

The latest ranking of 2023 by the cleanliness survey Swachh Survekshan marks Indore as the cleanest city of India. Indore has held the title of being India's cleanest city for seven consecutive years.[2]

Summary

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs ranks cities based on cleanliness index. This list summarises the cities topping those lists annually.

YearFirstRunner up
CityStateCityState
2021IndoreMadhya PradeshSuratGujarat
2020MetropolisIndoreMadhya PradeshSuratGujarat
Big cityAhmedabadGujarat
Medium cityMysoreKarnataka
Small cityAmbikapurChhattisgarh
2019MetropolisIndoreMadhya PradeshAmbikapurChhattisgarh
Big cityAhmedabadGujarat
Medium cityUjjainMadhya PradeshMysoreKarnataka
Small cityNew Delhi (Municipal Council)Delhi
2018MetropolisIndoreMadhya PradeshBhopalMadhya Pradesh
Big cityVijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
Medium cityMysoreKarnataka
Small cityNew Delhi (Municipal Council)Delhi
2017IndoreMadhya PradeshBhopalMadhya Pradesh
2016MysoreKarnatakaChandigarhChandigarh Territory
2015TiruchirapalliTamil Nadu
2010ChandigarhUnion Territory of ChandigarhMysoreKarnataka

2023

Swachh Sarvekshan 2023

Top 20 cleanest cities in India

Swachh Sarvekshan

Rank

CityState/Union Territory
1IndoreMadhya Pradesh
2SuratGujarat
3Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
4VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
5BhopalMadhya Pradesh
6VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
7New DelhiDelhi
8TirupatiAndhra Pradesh
9HyderabadTelangana
10PuneMaharashtra
11ChandigarhChandigarh
12RaipurChhattisgarh
13Pimpri-ChinchwadMaharashtra
14NoidaUttar Pradesh
15AhmedabadGujarat
16GwaliorMadhya Pradesh
17GunturAndhra Pradesh
18BaramatiMaharashtra
19UjjainMadhya Pradesh
20Mira-BhayandarMaharashtra
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[3]

2022

Swachh Sarvekshan 2022

Top 20 cleanest cities in India over 1 million population

Swachh Sarvekshan

Rank

CityState/Union Territory
1IndoreMadhya Pradesh
2SuratGujarat
3Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
4VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
5VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
6BhopalMadhya Pradesh
7RajkotGujarat
8AhmedabadGujarat
9PuneMaharashtra
10HyderabadTelangana
11RaipurChhattisgarh
12GhaziabadUttar Pradesh
13ThaneMaharashtra
14VadodaraGujarat
15MeerutUttar Pradesh
16PrayagrajUttar Pradesh
17LucknowUttar Pradesh
18GwaliorMadhya Pradesh
19Pimpri-ChinchwadMaharashtra
20NashikMaharashtra
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[4]

2021

Top 10 cleanest cities in the Swachh Survekshan 2021 for over 1 million Population[5]

Swachh Sarvekshan
Rank
CityState/Union Territory
1IndoreMadhya Pradesh
2SuratGujarat
3VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
4Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
5PuneMaharashtra
6RaipurChhattisgarh
7BhopalMadhya Pradesh
8VadodaraGujarat
9VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
10AhmedabadGujarat
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[5]

2019-2020

The results of the fifth edition of the nationwide annual cleanliness survey, 'Swachh Survekshan 2020,' are out and Madhya Pradesh's Indore has yet again made it as India's cleanest city. Gujarat's Surat emerged as India's second cleanest city, followed by Navi Mumbai which bagged the third spot in Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs' swachhta city survey report.[6][7][8]

Swachh Survekshan 2020 covered 4,242 cities, 62 cantonment boards and 92 Ganga towns. This survey was carried out in 28 days.[9]

List of Cleanest Cities in India 2020, are as follows:

Swachh Survekshan RankCityState/Union Territory
1IndoreMadhya Pradesh
2SuratGujarat
3Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
4AmbikapurChhattisgarh
5MysoreKarnataka
6VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
7AhmedabadGujarat
8New Delhi (NDMC)Delhi
9ChandrapurMaharashtra
10KhargoneMadhya Pradesh
Source: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.[10]

2017-2018

The dimensions of assessment increased during the 2017–18 survey, identifying cities and states to excel in different aspects of environment, energy, and cleanliness.

2016–2017

Swachh Survekshan 2017 was an extensive sanitation survey across 500 cities in India. The Ministry of Urban Development commissioned Quality Council of India to conduct this survey; to check the progress and impact of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched in 2014. It aims to foster a spirit of competition among the cities and offers a comprehensive assessment of their sanitation status.

The performance of each city was evaluated on five key thematic parameters-

  • • Municipal solid waste - sweeping, collection and transportation
  • • Municipal solid waste - processing and disposal of solid waste
  • • Open defecation free/toilets
  • • Capacity building and eLearning
  • • Provision of public & community toilet seats
  • • Information, education and communication, and behaviour change

Swachh Sarvekshan 2017 was conducted between 4 January 2017 and 7 February 2017.[11] The results of top 30 cities are as follows:

Swachh Sarvekshan
Rank
CityState/Union Territory
1IndoreMadhya Pradesh
2BhopalMadhya Pradesh
3VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
4SuratGujarat
5MysoreKarnataka
6TiruchirapalliTamil Nadu
7New Delhi Municipal CouncilDelhi
8Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
9TirupatiAndhra Pradesh
10VadodaraGujarat
11ChandigarhChandigarh
12UjjainMadhya Pradesh
13PuneMaharashtra
14AhmedabadGujarat
15AmbikapurChhattisgarh
16CoimbatoreTamil Nadu
17KhargoneMadhya Pradesh
18RajkotGujarat
19VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
20GandhinagarGujarat
21JabalpurMadhya Pradesh
22Greater Hyderabad Municipal CorporationTelangana
23SagarMadhya Pradesh
24MurwaraMadhya Pradesh
25NavsariGujarat
26VapiGujarat
27GwaliorMadhya pradesh
28WarangalTelangana
29MumbaiMaharashta
30SuryapetTelangana
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[12]

2015–2016

The Union Ministry of Urban Development commissioned an extensive survey to study the progress of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission and to rank 73 cities on sanitation and cleanliness. The survey, the first for the Swachh Bharat Mission, was conducted by the Quality Council of India (QCI) and was named Swachh Sarvekshan. It covered all state capitals and another 53 cities with a population of above one million. It involved three streams of data collection - interaction with municipal body, direct observation and citizen feedback. Swachh Sarvekshan evaluated the work done in the following six measurable aspects of sanitation and hygiene:

  • • Strategy for Open Defecation Free town (ODF) and Integrated Solid Waste Management (SWM)
  • • Information, Education and Behaviour Change Communication (IEBC) activity
  • • Sweeping, door to door collection and transportation (of solid waste)
  • • Processing and disposal (of solid waste)
  • • Provision of public & community toilet seats
  • • Construction of household individual toilets

Swachh Sarvekshan 2016 was conducted between 5 January 2016 and 20 January 2016.[13] The Results, as per the latest available sources, are as follows:

Swachh Sarvekshan
Rank
CityState/Union Territory
1MysoreKarnataka
2ChandigarhChandigarh
3TiruchirapalliTamil Nadu
4New DelhiDelhi
5VisakhapatnamAndhra Pradesh
6SuratGujarat
7RajkotGujarat
8GangtokSikkim
9Pimpri-ChinchwadMaharashtra
10MumbaiMaharashtra
11PuneMaharashtra
12Navi MumbaiMaharashtra
13VadodaraGujarat
14AhmedabadGujarat
15ImphalManipur
16PanajiGoa
17ThaneMaharashtra
18CoimbatoreTamil Nadu
19HyderabadTelangana
20NagpurMaharashtra
21BhopalMadhya Pradesh
22AllahabadUttar Pradesh
23VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh
24BhubaneshwarOdisha
25IndoreMadhya Pradesh
26MaduraiTamil Nadu
27ShimlaHimachal Pradesh
28LucknowUttar Pradesh
29JaipurRajasthan
30GwaliorMadhya Pradesh
31NashikMaharashtra
32WarangalTelangana
33AgartalaTripura
34LudhianaPunjab
35Vasai-VirarMaharashtra
36ChennaiTamil Nadu
37GurgaonHaryana
38BengaluruKarnataka
39SDMCDelhi
40ThiruvananthapuramKerala
41AizawlMizoram
42GandhinagarGujarat
43NMCDDelhi
44KozhikodeKerala
45KanpurUttar Pradesh
46DurgChhattisgarh
47AgraUttar Pradesh
48SrinagarJammu and Kashmir
49AmritsarPunjab
50GuwahatiAssam
51FaridabadHaryana
52EMCDDelhi
53ShillongMeghalaya
54Hubli-DharwadKarnataka
55KochiKerala
56AurangabadMaharashtra
57JodhpurRajasthan
58KotaRajasthan
59CuttackOdisha
60KohimaNagaland
61DehradunUttarakhand
62RanchiJharkhand
63JabalpurMadhya Pradesh
64Kalyan-DombivaliMaharashtra
65VaranasiUttar Pradesh
66JamshedpurJharkhand
67GhaziabadUttar Pradesh
68RaipurChhattisgarh
69MeerutUttar Pradesh
70PatnaBihar
71ItanagarArunachal Pradesh
72AsansolWest Bengal
73DhanbadJharkhand
Source: Press Information Bureau and Ministry of Urban Development[14]

2014–2015

RankCityState/TerritoryRating points (out of 20)
1MysoreKarnataka18.50
2TiruchirapalliTamil Nadu14.25
3Navi MumbaiMaharashtra14.18
4KochiKerala14.07
5HassanKarnataka13.58
6MandyaKarnataka13.52
7BengaluruKarnataka13.27
8ThiruvananthapuramKerala12.98
9HalisaharWest Bengal12.75
10GangtokSikkim12.68
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[15]

According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) India, in 2015 it conducted a survey of the least polluted cities in India as well, ranked based on air quality. Among the least-polluted cities are Pathanamthitta, Mangalore, Wayanad, Hassan, and Palakkad. The table below shows the ranking of these cities as per the PM10 content in the air.[16][17]

RankCityState/TerritoryPM10
1PathanamthittaKerala23
2MangaloreKarnataka31
3WayanadKerala33
4HassanKarnataka36
5PalakkadKerala36
Source: Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) India[16]

2009–2010

RankCityState/TerritoryRating points
1ChandigarhUnion Territory of Chandigarh73.48
2MysoreKarnataka70.65
3SuratGujarat69.08
4New DelhiDelhi68.265
5Delhi Cantt.Delhi61.367
6TiruchirappalliTamil Nadu59.02
7JamshedpurJharkhand57.960
8MangaloreKarnataka57.340
9RajkotGujarat56.118
10KanpurUttar Pradesh55.340
11Navi MumbaiMaharashtra53.920
12BangaloreKarnataka53.637
13ChennaiTamil Nadu53.630
14RourkelaOdisha53.400
15MandyaKarnataka53.330
16BidhannagarWest Bengal52.820
17NoidaUttar Pradesh51.910
18ShillongMeghalaya51.550
19AhmedabadGujarat50.286
20AlandurTamil Nadu50.240
21HaridwarUttarakhand49.850
22BidarKarnataka49.820
23AchalpurMaharashtra49.666
24VijayawadaAndhra Pradesh49.060
25KolkataWest Bengal48.965
Source: Ministry of Urban Development[18]

See also

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