The results of Swachh Survekshan 2020 were announced recently. And for the fourth consecutive year Indore (Madhya Pradesh) came at the first position being the cleanest city in India. Indore was followed by Surat (Gujarat) Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) Ambikapur (Chhattisgarh) and Mysore (Karnataka) to become the top 5 cleanest cities.
The Swachh Survekshan survey is conducted by the Quality Council of India (QCI) which comes under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion within Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Swachh Survekshan survey is part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which was launched by PM Narendra Modi on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary.
The objective of this service to make more and more people participate in the swachh Bharat abhiyan and also to include cities in a healthy competition to maintain cleanliness. Swachh Survekshan 2020 is the world’s largest cleanliness survey. It included 4,242 cities and the survey was completed within 28 days. This time proper documentation was done buy open local bodies and the images captured were geotagged. 19 crore citizen feedbacks were collected. Not just this time the survey was fully digitalised that is it was a paperless survey. the survey was marked on total of 6000 marks which was divided into Citizen Feedback (1500), Direct Observation (1500), Certification for Garbage and Open Defecation Free (1500) and Service Level Progress (1200), Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (200).
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