MUMBAI: Mumbai's rank rose to 31 from 37 last year in the in the Swachh Survekshan 2022 -- a nationwide sanitation survey of cities. In MMR, Thane rose to 13th rank from 14th last year while Navi Mumbai also rose to third from fourth last year. The cities were ranked among 45 cities with a population of more than 10 lakh. Swachh Survekshan 2022, under Swachh Bharat Mission, is conducted by the ministry of housing and urban affairs every year. lndore was ranked the cleanest city for sixth time in a row while Surat the second cleanest city for third time since the year 2020. Among the other cities in the Maharashtra which have featured in the list apart from Navi Mumbai, Thane and Mumbai are Kalyan Dombivli which ranked at 24th, Pune has ranked 9th, Aurangabad 30th, Nagpur 27th, Kalyan-Dombivli 25th, Pimpri Chinchwad at 19th. Mira Bhayandar has ranked seventh in category of under 10 lakh population. Karhad in Maharashtra ranked the third cleanest city among those with less than 1 lakh population and Panchgani fifth. Meanwhile, among states Maharashtra ranked third with more than 100 urban local bodies. Additional municipal commissioner Sanjeev Kumar from BMC said that they are happy to see the city’s ranking having improved. “It was all team effort that our city’s ranking has improved. We have plans to further improve our ranking in the next year too by focusing on decentralised waste management,” said Kumar. However King Circle citizen activist Nikhil Desai said that a municipal corporation having the biggest financial budget has not been able to feature among the top ten as well is very unfortunate. “A city like Indore is featuring on number one position year after year. We should try to learn from them as to what are they doing right to retain the top position,” said Desai. Over Navi Mumbai's ranking, former NMMC civic chief Ahijit Bangar, who was just transferred to neighbouring Thane city on Friday, said, “I am happy that Navi Mumbai improved its all-India ranking from 4th last year to 3rd now. It’s a huge leap and credit goes to the citizens of Navi Mumbai who extended wholehearted support to see the city in the select band of cleanest cities in the country. We had expected to ace the award list but slipped to the 3rd rank by a whisker. However, it’s a great achievement.” Besides national 3rd rank, in the open defecation free (ODF) category, NMMC received the Water Double Plus award and 5-star status. “The competition was very tough this time and despite that we bagged the 3rd cleanest city award. We left no stone unturned to get into the top spot. However, Navi Mumbai is the only city that can give a tough challenge to other top ranking cities,” said Bangar. A Navi Mumbai resident Yashshree Aghav said, “We should have received the first rank since Navi Mumbai deserved it.”
NAGPUR: As the Nagpur Municipal Corporation has failed to improve its performance, Nagpur slipped to 27th rank, out of the 47 cities (above 10 lakh population category) in Swachh Survekshan-2022. The city, however, ranked 8th in the state. This year, Swachh Bharat Survekshan was of 7,500 marks and NMC has scored 4,171 marks. Nagpur city secured zero out of 1,250 marks in garbage free city category. It scored very badly under service level progress too and secured 1,826 marks. Under citizens’ voice category, it scored 1,745. For the last three consecutive years, the NMC has been scoring absolutely zero marks in the garbage free city rankings category, which affected the overall ranking. In 2020 and 2021 too the city had scored similar marks in GFC category. Under open defecation free category, it scored 600 marks. It however received a set back on its claim of treating sewerage water and its reuse. It scored zero out of 300, as it is releasing treated water in polluted river.
Indore was adjudged India’s cleanest city for the sixth time in a row, while Surat and Navi Mumbai followed it on the next two spots in the Central government’s annual cleanliness survey, the results of which were announced Saturday.In the category of best performing states in ‘Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022’, Madhya Pradesh has secured the first position, followed by Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.Indore and Surat retained their top positions in the big cities category this year, while Vijaywada lost its third spot to Navi Mumbai.Among the states having fewer than 100 urban local bodies, Tripura has bagged the top rank, according to the survey results.President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday gave away the awards to the winners at an event here also attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others.In the category of cities having population fewer than one lakh, Maharashtra’s Panchgani was ranked number one, followed by Chhattisgarh’s Patan (NP) and Maharashtra’s Karhad.Haridwar was adjudged the cleanest Ganga town in the category of more than 1 lakh population, followed by Varanasi and Rishikesh. PTI BUN Bijnor was ranked the first among Ganga towns with fewer than one lakh population. followed by Kannauj and Garhmukhteshwar respectively.In to the survey, Maharashtra’s Deolali was adjudged the country’s cleanest Cantonment Board.The 7th edition of Swachh Survekshan was conducted to study the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and rank the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) based on various cleanliness and sanitation parameters.The Survekshan has evolved from being an assessment of 73 cities in 2016 to covering 4,354 cities this year.
NEW DELHI: Indore emerged as the cleanest city of India for the 6th time in a row while Surat has scored a hat-trick as the second cleanest city since 2020. Navi Mumbai is the third cleanest city while NDMC, which houses the county's most powerful people, has slipped to 9th position in 2022 from being the fifth cleanest city last year and 8th in 2020. President Droupadi Muru released the ranking of urban local bodies (ULBs) on cleanliness parameters for 2022 on Saturday. Read AlsoNoida: Swachh test to focus on plastic waste and doorstep collectionThe Noida Authority has started preparations for Swachh Survekshan 2023 after receiving guidelines from the ministry of housing and urban affairs. This year, cities will be judged on 9,500 marks against last year’s 7,500.The NCR city of Noida has been ranked at 11th in the latest report compared to its 9th position in the 2021 survey report. The ranking of ULBs has been done under two categories -- more than one lakh and less than one lakh. Among ULBs that have less than one lakh population, four of the top five cleanest cities are from Maharashtra, which is almost similar to the trend of 2022. Panchgani in Maharashtra is the cleanest among these cities, followed by Patan in Chhattisgarh and Karhad in Maharashtra. Read Also8 years of Swachh Bharat: Availability of functioning public toilers still an issue but civic sense has improved, says surveyWith the Swachh Bharat Mission completing its eighth year on October 2, a survey by LocalCircles has revealed that availability of functioning public toilets still remains an issue but that the scheme has done a lot to improve the civic sense of citizens and responsiveness of civic authorities whenThe 2022 survey covered 4,354 ULBs, including 62 Cantonment Boards and 91 Ganga Towns in the country. The first edition of Swachh Survekshan in 2016 covered only 73 ULBs. Barring 126 ULBs from West Bengal all other local bodies participated in the survey. Among the 62 Cantonment Boards, Deolali in Maharashtra emerged as the cleanest followed by Ahmedabad and Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. Delhi Cantonment Board finished 5th in the list. “The main aim of Swachh Survekshan is to examine the cities for their levels of cleanliness and active implementation of Swachhata mission initiatives in a timely and innovative manner,” the housing and urban affairs ministry said. In this survey, cities were assessed under various parameters in three phases throughout the year. The assessment had three components -- Service Level Progress, Citizen Voice and Certifications. Under the citizen voice on field verifications were also done to validate the claims made by the ULBs. The ministry said samples were collected from 100% wards in the cities that were covered in this survey. Read AlsoHow to manage waste? Noida Authority to hire a private firmThe Noida Authority will hire a consultant for Swachh Survekshan 2023 to help implement viable sanitation and waste management projects. The consultant will also help Noida improve open defecation-free and garbage-free ratings. Noida has issued a request for proposal (RFP) document in this regard.For the first time, the “citizen report card” was introduced for the survey, which was aimed to disseminate the information regarding the status of cleanliness in the city to the citizens. This covered different aspects such as segregated door to door waste collection, cleanliness of roads and public toilets, city beautification, cleanliness of market areas, residential areas, drains and water bodies, daily sweeping in residential areas, non-availability of open garbage dumps and citizen grievance redressal mechanism.
PUNE: Deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, in a speech to industrialists of the region at a Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries, and Agriculture (MCCIA) event, indirectly criticised the former Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for "discouraging" investment in the state, while commenting on the move of the upcoming Vedanta-Foxconn project to Gujarat. "The project was never in Maharashtra, but it should have come to Maharashtra. There were two-and-a-half years of instability in the state, caused by incidents like the state home minister being in jail, a former police commissioner absconding, and more, all of which did not make investors want to come here. Our government is focusing on attracting investment now - our state has the culture of industry and ecosystem for industries to grow," Fadnavis said. Fadnavis also spoke about infrastructural needs of the city, such as the ring road and the airport, adding that the operationalisation of Navi Mumbai airport will bring some relief to residents of Pune. He also promised to crack down on 'fake' mathadi workers' unions, as well as improve on connectivity issues in MIDCs, adding that the Union government is working on widening roads in those areas.
Pune: Deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, in a speech to industrialists of the region at a Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries, and Agriculture (MCCIA) event, indirectly criticised the former Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government for “discouraging” investment in the state, while commenting on the move of the upcoming Vedanta-Foxconn project to Gujarat. “The project was never in Maharashtra, but it should have come to Maharashtra. There were two-and-a-half years of instability in the state, caused by incidents like the state home minister being in jail, a former police commissioner absconding, and more, all of which did not make investors want to come here. Our government is focusing on attracting investment now — our state has the culture of industry and ecosystem for industries to grow,” Fadnavis said. Fadnavis also spoke about infrastructural needs of the city, such as the ring road and the airport, adding that the operationalisation of Navi Mumbai airport will bring some relief to residents of Pune. He also promised to crack down on ‘fake’ mathadi workers’ unions, as well as improve on connectivity issues in MIDCs, adding that the Union government is working on widening roads in those areas.
