Once Again Indore Has Been Declared India's Cleanest City, Followed By Bhopal And Chandigarh

While most metropolitan Indian cities are laden with an acrid odour, wreck and litter, a growing town like Indore has managed to retain its title of being the cleanest city in India.?

Once again, Indore and Bhopal have retained their position as the top two cleanest cities for the second consecutive year and Chandigarh has been ranked as the third cleanest city.

For those who have never visited Indore, know that it is not as if it flourished in the absence of boorish persons. Like every city, Indore too had people who'd clean their houses but won't keep their streets clean, but things changed over the years.?

While municipal corporation fo the city took charge of picking up the trash on time, the second in line to keep their city clean were the citizens. People stopped throwing trash on the roads, tossing empty water bottles from the cars, leaving behind wrappers on picnic spots etc.?

In most cases, it was personal supervision and coercion that led everyone to participate in the swachh?drive equally. Don't believe me? Well, check out this video of baratis?picking up glasses and cups behind a procession.

As for the results of sanitation survey announced by housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday, NDMC has been deemed as the cleanest city among municipal bodies with less than three lakh population while Greater Mumbai was found to be the cleanest among all state capitals.

Vijayawada is the cleanest amongst all big cities in India, having over 1 million population?and Mysuru among cities with a?population of three lakh to one million.

“The on-field survey for Swachh Survekshan has been conducted by an independent agency and the data for ranking of the cities has been collected from three sources - service level progress; direct observation by random field visits, and the third was citizen feedback,” said an official, reports TOI.?