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Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023
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- Surat in Gujarat and Indore in Madhya Pradesh were jointly declared cleanest cities of the country.
- Indore has been adjudged the cleanest city for the seventh time in a row.
- The list of top 10 cleanest cities with a population of more than one lakh also includes Greater Visakhapatnam, Bhopal, Vijayawada, New Delhi, Tirupati, Greater Hyderabad and Pune.
- As far as the States were concerned, Maharashtra came first, followed by Madhya Pradesh and then Chhattisgarh.
- Odisha is ranked fourth, followed by Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Karnataka, Goa, Haryana and Bihar.
- In the category of cities with a population of less than one lakh, Sasvad and Lonavala in Maharashtra as well as Patan in Chhattisgarh secured the top three spots.
- Mhow Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh was adjudged the cleanest cantonment board.
- Varanasi and Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, won the top two awards amongst the cleanest Ganga towns.
- Chandigarh won the Best Safai Mitra Surakshit Sheher (safest city for sanitation workers).
- Kilvelur town panchayat in Nagapattinam has topped Tamil Nadu in being the cleanest local body in Swachh Survekshan for 2023.
- Kilvelur has also been ranked the cleanest local body in the list of southern states (south zone).
- The theme of the cleanliness survey 2023 was “Waste to Wealth”, while for 2024 it is “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”.
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