Surat,
Rajkot, Gangtok, Vizag break into top 10 clean cities ; Allahabad improves the
most
NDMC,
North and South MCD improve ranks while East MCD slips
Swachh
Bharat Mission made a positive impact, says Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu
Swachh
Survekshan results show Northern cities improving on sanitation
17
of 28 Northern cities surveyed improve ranks; no city in top 10 losers
15
well performing cities felicitated by Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu
Mysuru
in Karnataka remained the cleanest city in the country while Dhanbad in
Jharkhand came at the bottom of 73 major cities surveyed for sanitation
scenario last month. Results of ‘Swachh Survekshan-2016’ were released by the
Minister of Urban Development Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu at a media conference here
today. 53 cities with a population of above ten lakhs each and 22 capitals that
do not have that much population were selected for the survey. NOIDA and
Kolkata desired to participate in the next round of survey.
The
top 10 cities in terms of sanitation and hygiene in order of rank are: Mysuru,
Chandigarh, Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), New Delhi Municipal Council,
Visakhapatnam(Andhra Pradesh), Surat, Rajkot, both in Gujarat, Gangtok
(Sikkim), Pimpri Chindwad and Greater Mumbai, both from Maharashtra.
Visakhapatnam(Andhra
Pradesh),Surat and Rajkot, both form Gujarat and Gangtok(Sikkim) improved their
ranks to break into top 10 clean cities in this year’s survey.
The
bottom 10 cities are : Kalyan Dombivili (Maharshtra-ranked 64), Varanasi,
Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), Ghaziabad (UP), Raipur (Chattisgarh), Meerut (UP),
Patna (Bihar), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Asansol (West Bengal) and Dhanbad,
ranked 73.
Last
cleanliness survey was conducted in 2014 among 476 cities with a population of
one lakh and above each and results were announced last year. This survey was
done before the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission by Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi in October last year. From the results of 2014 survey which was based on a
large number of parameters, 476 cities were ranked based on their performance
with regard to the components of Swachh Bharat Mission like construction of
toilets, solid waste management and independent observation. This enabled
comparison of results of both the surveys for assessing the impact of Swachh
Bharat Mission.
The
73 cities surveyed this year were also ranked based on the marks they scored in
2014 for arriving at their ranks in 2014 for further comparison with the
results of this year’s survey.
Based
on the comparison of the marks and ranks of the two surveys, Shri Venkaiah
Naidu stated that :
1.Swachh
Bharat Mission made a positive impact in urban areas in terms of enhanced
efforts to improve sanitation, reorientation of attitudes of urban local bodies
and citizens and improvement on ground;
2.Cities
are at different levels in terms of progress towards sanitation and there is a
churning going on to do better on ground in absolute terms and also in relation
to others cities with new Shakers and Movers emerging;
3.Cities
from South and West continue to do well over all but those in other parts of
the country and particularly, in the North are beginning to catch up with the
traditional leaders;
4.There
is a need for significantly stepping up efforts by the identified Slow movers
in the East and some parts of the North;
5.Categorisation
of cities as Leaders, Aspiring Leaders, those who need to accelerate their
efforts and Slow Movers would help them plan future course of action and for
the central government to assist with necessary monitoring, mentoring and hand
holding as required;
6.
Making the survey results public would further foster a healthy competition
among cities as everything that gets measured gets done and competition makes
one strive better;
7.
Swachh Survekshan-2016 was thorough, professional, evidence based and
participatory.
Shri
Naidu stated that of the 73 cities surveyed, 32 have improved ranks since the
last survey including 17 from the North. 6 from the West, 5 from the South and
2 each from the East and North-East. He said this is a clear evidence of
enhanced efforts being made by the northern cities towards sanitation and new
cities challenging the domination of cities from the South and the West among
top clean cities.
Of
these 32, top 10 movers who have substantially improved their ranks in 2016
survey are : Allahabad (improved by 45 ranks), Nagpur (40), Visakhapatnam(39),
Gwalior (34), Bhubaneswar(32), Hyderabad(31), Gurgaon(29), Vijayawada(23) and
Lucknow(23).
Among
the municipal bodies in the NCT of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Council improved
its rank from 7 in 2014 to 4 in 2016, South MCD from 47 to 39 and North MCD
from 47 to 43 while East MCD slipped from 47 rank in 2014 to 52 in 2016.
Top
10 cities who moved down in ranks in 2016 i.e top 10 bottom movers are:
Jamshedpur, Kochi, Shillong, Chennai, Guwahati, Asansol, Bengaluru, Ranchi,
Kalyan Dombivili and Nashik. While Jamshedpur moved down this year by 53 ranks,
Nashik slipped by 23 ranks.
While
the top movers has 4 cities form the North, there is no city from the North
among the top 10 bottom movers.
While
making an improvement in the efforts and ground situation towards sanitation, a
total of 33 cities have slipped in terms of ranks in 2016 from that of previous
survey. These include 11 of the 28 cities included in the survey from the
North, 8 of 15 cities from the South, 7 of 15 from the West, 5 of 7 from the
East and 2 of 8 from the North-East.
Regarding
methodology used for Swachh Survekshan-2016, Shri Naidu informed that out of
the total marks of 2,000 for assessing the performance of efforts of 73 cities,
60% were assigned for solid waste management related parameters, 30% for
construction of toilets and 5% each for city level sanitation strategy and
behavior change communication.
Quality
Council of India which conducted the survey deployed 25 teams of 3 trained
surveyors each to visit 42 locations in each city covering major zones like
railway stations, bus stations, religious places, major market places, planned
and unplanned residential areas including slums and toilet complexes. The
survey teams took a total of 3,066 geo-tagged photos of places visited as
evidence and they were uploaded on website today.
Shri
Naidu said that all the 73 cities were informed sufficiently in advance so as
to make available documentary evidence of their efforts towards improving
sanitation and for verification by survey teams. Over one lakh citizens
responded with their feedback on cleanliness in respective cities making the
survey of 2016 evidence based and participatory.
AAR
February
15,2016