Indore, Surat top 10 cleanest cities in India

Madhya Pradesh s Indore has retained the cleanest city tag for the sixth time in a row. The 7th edition of Swachh Survekshan covering 4,354 cities in 2022 aims to study the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission Urban and rank Urban Local Bodies ULBs based on various cleanliness and sanitation parameters.

Gujarat s Surat and Maharashtra s Navi Mumbai have earned the second and third spots on the cleanliness list. President Droupadi Murmu handed over the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2022 at an event in Delhi. Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri attended the event.

According to the survey results, Indore and Surat retained their top positions in the big cities category with more than 1 lakh population in 2022. Andhra Pradesh s Vijaywada lost its third spot to Navi Mumbai.

As per the results of the annual cleanliness survey 2022, Madhya Pradesh was the cleanest state.

In the category of cities with a population of less than one lakh, Panchgani took the top spot, followed by Chhattisgarh's Patan NP and Maharashtra's Karad. Tripura came in at the top of the list of states with less than 100 urban local bodies.

Uttarakhand s Haridwar was named the cleanest Ganga town in the category of more than 1 lakh population, followed by Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand.

Uttar Pradesh s Bijnor ranked first among Ganga towns with less than one lakh population, followed by Kannauj and Garh Mukteshwar, respectively.

Here are India's top 10 cleanest cities with more than 1 lakh population: