India Cleanest Cities Ranking 2022 List: 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.

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President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday gave away the awards to the winners at an event. The event was also attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others.
 
List of the cleanest cities in India  

  • Indore
  • Surat
  • Navi Mumbai
  • Visakhapatnam
  • Vijayawada
  • Bhopal
  • Tirupati
  • Mysore
  • New Delhi
  • Ambikapur

Among the states having fewer than 100 urban local bodies, Tripura has bagged the top rank, according to the survey results.
 
In the category of cities having a population of fewer than one lakh, Maharashtra's Panchgani was ranked number one, followed by Chhattisgarh's Patan (NP) and Maharashtra's Karhad.
 
Uttarakhand's Haridwar was adjudged the cleanest Ganga town in the category of more than 1 lakh population, followed by Varanasi and Rishikesh. Uttar Pradesh's Bijnor was ranked the first among Ganga towns with fewer than one lakh population, followed by Kannauj and Garhmukhteshwar respectively.
 
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.

(With input from PTI)