Swachh Survekshan Awards

Recently Union government announced the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023.

An annual cleanliness ranking for urban areas since 2016.
Released by – Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
Coverage – Originally 73 cities in 2016, now has increased along with 4,416 urban local bodies, 61 cantonments and 88 Ganga towns.
About 1.58 crore online citizen feedback and 19.82 lakh face-to-face views were received as a part of the ranking.
Criteria
- Door-to-door collection of waste
- Segregation at source
- cleanliness of public areas
- Clean water bodies
- Citizens’ feedback regarding the cleanliness of their cities

2023 Awards

Among Cities with >1 lakh population – Indore and Surat were named the joint winners with 100% door-to-door collection of waste & remediation of dumpsites and 98% segregation at source.

2023 was the 7^th year in a row that Indore was named the cleanest city in the Swachh Survekshan Awards. Surat won the top award for the 1^st time. Of the 8 rounds of annual awards since 2016, this was the 1^st time that 2 cities shared the top prize.

Among States – Maharashtra bagged the top spot with 89.24% door-to-door collection and 67.76% source segregation followed by Madhya Pradesh.
Sasvad in Maharashtra was named the cleanest city among those with population below 1 lakh.
Chandigarh won the award for the city having the best safety standards for sanitation workers, Safaimitra Surakshit Shehar.
Varanasi was named the cleanest ‘Ganga town’.
Mhow Cantonment was the cleanest cantonment in the country.
Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Nagaland and Tripura were ranked the bottom five states.

Scientific processing of waste had increased from 15-16% in 2014 to almost 76% by Jan 2024.

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