India(In)’s cleanest cities 2024 list: Indore has appeared as the cleanest city within the nation this yr. yet again! With this Indore became the city to have nabbed the prestigious Swachh Survekshan award for 4 times in a row.
The city that is also called the main fiscal center of the state of MP was steadily topping the list for the past 4 yrs.. The development (devt) has been declared by this Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs that has declared the Swachh Sarvekshan survey results for 2024.
India(In)’s cleanest cities 2024: Top 10 cleanest cities
The 10 cities that appeared as the nation’s finest top 10 cities within the Swachh Survekshan survey implemented this yr. are:
Indore became the inspiration for the whole nation by bagging the prestigious Swachh Sarvekshan award for the 4th time in a row.
Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Alter Prakash Javadekar wrote from his own officer twitter account(a/c).
He also taken the chance to congratulate the CM of the state Shivraj Singh Chauhan with the locals of the city for this.
Closely trailing Indore have been the cities of Surat in Gujarat(GJ) & Navi Mumbai (Bombay) within the state of Maharashtra(MH) that nabbed the 2nd & the 3rd location on the list. This has been the 5th edition of the Swachh Survekshan survey implemented by this govt.
Ever from the Narendra Modi commanded BJP govt had come to power in 2014, additional emphasis was laid on sanitation & rejuvenation of the cities.
The govt has also initiated schemes like Swachh Bharat Mission, AMRUT, Clever City mission amongst remaining to take (2) the initiative forward.
Apart from that huge cities that are surveyed, smaller cities & towns having populations of under a lakh locals have been also part of the survey.
On the front of smaller cities, the state of Maharashtra(MH) made a clean sweep grabbing 20 spots for its cities out of the top 25 within the category. The top 3 small cities on the list- Karad, Sasvad & Lonavala- all pertain to Maharashtra(MH).
Awhile Chhattisgarh(CG) nabbed 2 spots on the list of top 25, the states of Punjab(PB), MP, & Rajasthan(RJ) nabbed 1 location every.
In an trying to keep a separate track of the towns & cities that are situated on the banks of the Ganga river, the Ministry also released a separate list for top performing Ganga towns.
Amongst the huge Gangetic cities, the Lok Sabha constituency of PM Narendra Modi Varanasi topped the list succeeded by megacity Kanpur(U.P) & Munger(Bihar(BR)) on 2nd & 3rd location respectively.
Prayagraj where the mighty river Yamuna converges with the Ganga also secured fourth rank on the list succeeded by Haridwar on the 5th location from where the Ganga descends on the plains to traverse its path using the Northern plains.
The BJP govt in the center had initiated the Ganga cleansing mission-Namami Gange- within the yr. 2015 shortly after it had come to power in 2014.