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Waste collection gains pace in Chandigarh, but disposal still stuck in slow lane
After Chandigarh climbed to 12th spot last year from 16th in 2021, the municipal corporation is hoping to break into top 3 cities after several waste management initiatives

Updated on Aug 25, 2023 01:43 PM IST
Mandeep Kaur Narula, Chandigarh
Littered waste greets Swachh Survekshan team in Mohali
Last year, Mohali’s rank in the annual cleanliness survey had dropped to 81, 32 positions down from 113 in 2021

Updated on Aug 24, 2023 02:46 AM IST
, Mohali
Mohit KhannaEyeing to improve swachhta ranking, Ludhiana MC installs plastic shredder
The shredder which will be used to re-use the plastic waste for road construction has been installed at a cost of ₹3.75 lakh

Updated on Jun 05, 2023 11:56 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Ludhiana
Navi Mumbai, Panvel, Thane civic bodies top in beautification
While the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), which is a C category civic body, and the Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC), a D category civic body, have topped their categories in the state government’s ‘City Beautification and Cleanliness Competition 2022’

Updated on Apr 21, 2023 12:36 AM IST
Swachh Survekshan 2022: Tripura is a top performer in this list
Among the states with fewer than 100 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), Tripura has ranked first in the seventh edition of the Swachh Survekshan.

Published on Oct 01, 2022 09:20 PM IST
Written by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao | Edited by Swati Bhasin
Delhi: North MCD ropes in private consultant to improve Swachh ranking
In the 2021 Swachh Survekshan list, North MCD ranked 45 among the 48 local bodies in the country with over one million population

Updated on Dec 27, 2021 03:09 AM IST
Paras Singh, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Swachh rankings: AAP blames BJP for poor show by Delhi MCDs
AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj on Sunday said that all the three BJP-ruled MCDs have failed disastrously, and have not even been able to make it to the top 20 in the swachh rankings by the central government

Updated on Nov 22, 2021 02:17 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Swachh Survekshan: NDMC declared cleanest city in 1-3 lakh population category
NDMC improved on its 2020 ranking, when it clinched the third spot in the survey, even as the North MCD fell from 43rd to 45th on the rankings, out of 48 cities, while the East MCD climbed from 46 last year to 40 this year

Updated on Nov 21, 2021 02:20 AM IST
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Swachh Survekshan 2021: Indore bags cleanest city tag for fifth consecutive year
The results of the survey were announced by President Ram Nath Kovind, who gave away the awards in the presence of Union housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri and others at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’, at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Saturday

Updated on Nov 21, 2021 02:38 AM IST
Sweta Goswami, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Indore declared cleanest city in India for 5th time in a row
Chhattisgarh has been awarded cleanest state in the annual cleanliness survey while Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh has won the cleanest Ganga town in the Swachh Survekshan 2021’ awards.

Updated on Nov 20, 2021 06:53 PM IST
Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Amit Chaturvedi, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
‘Swachh Survekshan 2021’: President Kovind to award 342 cleanest cities shortly
The event to felicitate the cities, ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ is being organised by the Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MOHUA) and would take place at Vigyan Bhawan in the national capital.

Updated on Nov 20, 2021 11:31 AM IST
hindustantimes.com, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Swachh Survekshan Grameen: Cleanliness survey for villages to be launched today
Swachh Survekshan Grameen: The Jal Shakti ministry said 17,475 villages in 698 districts of the country will be covered by the cleanliness survey. Around 87,250 public places, such as schools, Anganwadi centres, public health centres, markets, religious places will be visited for the survey.

Published on Sep 09, 2021 05:20 AM IST
PTI |
Swachh Survekshan 2021: Indore gets ready with 'unique' wall paintings
Indore has got the cleanest city award four times already.

Published on Feb 05, 2021 01:52 PM IST
ANI |
Shimla ranks 65th in Swachh Survekshan 2020, cleanest town in Himachal
In the 2019 survey, Shimla was ranked 128th in the list. No other town in the state figures among the top 100 cleanest cities.

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 09:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Dharamshala | Naresh K Thakur, Dharamshala:
Swachh Survekshan 2020: Indore ranked cleanest city for the fourth consecutive year
The announcement of this year’s results was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 03:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Anisha Dutta
Indore’s fourth consecutive win, tops Swachh Survekshan 2020
Swachh Survekshan 2020: Mysuru had won the award for the cleanest city of India in the first edition of the survey, while Indore has retained the top position for three consecutive years (2017,2018, 2019).

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
hindustantimes.com| Edited by Susmita Pakrasi
Swachh Survekshan 2020: All you need to know about India’s cleanliness survey
Minister of Civil Aviation of India Hardeep Singh Puri is going to announce the results of Swachh Survekshan 2020 today at 11am. This is the fifth edition of India’s cleanliness survey.

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 11:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Prashasti Singh
4,242 cities, 92 Ganga towns and 1.87 crore citizens: All you need to know about Swachh Survekshan 2020
All you need to know: Swachh Survekshan 2020 has been carried out and completed within a span of 28 days.

Updated on Aug 18, 2020 06:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
hindustantimes.com | Edited by Arpan Rai
Chandigarh, hurry up! Give feedback for Swachh Survekshan 2020 by Jan 31
Citizen feedback, which has 25% weightage in the final score, is open till January 31. Only 3% registered users have responded so far.

Updated on Jan 20, 2020 12:39 AM IST
Ghaziabad bags 13th spot in Swachh Survekshan rankings
A total of 425 urban local bodies from across the country had participated in this year’s Swachh Survekshan. Ghaziabad has improved a lot as is evident from its ranking from last year, when the city had the 351st position nationally.

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 04:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ghaziabad | Peeyush Khandelwal
Swachh Survekshan 2019: North, South Delhi civic bodies slip in cleanliness ranking, East records big jump
Swati Singh Sambyal, programme manager, solid waste management at Centre for Science and Environment, said, “The rankings hold up a mirror for the MCDs. They are not focusing on implementing the Solid Waste Management Byelaws 2016. There is no segregation, the only emphasis is on waste to energy plants.”

Updated on Mar 07, 2019 02:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
Baishali Adak
Swachh Survekshan 2019: Thane rank slips to 57
Though TMC has ambitious plans for solid waste management, they are merely on paper; it still doesn’t have a dumping ground

Published on Mar 07, 2019 12:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times | , Thane
Megha Pol and Priyanka DhomseSwachh Survekshan 2019: Chandigarh slips to 20th spot
This is a big hit for India’s first planned city, which recorded its worst performance in national cleanliness survey that began in 2016.

Updated on Mar 06, 2019 10:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Vivek Gupta
HT Spotlight: Welcome to Chandigarh’s wasteland
The ever increasing dump at Dadumajra is not just the bane of people living in adjoining sectors, but also of the entire city

Updated on Jul 04, 2018 10:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Vivek Gupta
Swachh Survekshan: Ranked 4th three years ago, Batala now dirtiest town in Punjab
Batala, 32km from Gurdaspur, was once known as the “Iron Bird of Asia” for its foundry industry.

Updated on Jun 26, 2018 11:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Batala |
Vishal Sally
Swachh Survekshan: Jaipur among 40 cleanest cities in country
Jaipur has improved significantly to be among the top 40 cleanest cities in the country

Updated on Jun 24, 2018 10:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jaipur | HT Correspondent
Swachh Survekshan 2018: Mohali, Panchkula remain Chandigarh’s ‘poor’ cousins
The two cities failed to make a cut in the top 100.

Updated on Jun 24, 2018 01:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mohali/Panchkula | , Mohali/panchkula
HT CorrespondentsSwachh Survekshan 2018: Poor waste management keeps Chandigarh from grabbing top spot
With waste segregation at household level a failure and only about 40% garbage being processed, Chandigarh scores low as compared to Indore, Bhopal.

Updated on Jun 24, 2018 01:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Vivek Gupta, Chandigarh
Chandigarh third cleanest city in India: Swachh Bharat survey
The city, which had dropped from the second spot to eleventh last year, is just behind Indore and Bhopal this year.

Updated on May 16, 2018 11:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | Vivek Gupta