Why in News ?

Annual cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) released.

Performance of cities

• Indore was ranked first as the cleanest city in the overall category this year followed
• Surat and Navi Mumbai got placed in second and third.
• Chhattisgarh got the title of cleanest state in India. 
• Ahmedabad is India’s the cleanest Mega city.
• Shajahanpur is the best city in maximum participation.
• Bihar’s Gaya with a rank of 382, is at the bottom.
• Varanasi has been ranked the cleanest among 46 Ganga towns.

About the Swachh Survekshan

• The survey, which covered 4,242 cities and saw the participation of 1.87 crore citizens, was completed in 28 days.
• Annual cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA).
• The MoHUA, which is the nodal agency for the Swachh Bharat Mission conducted first Swachh Survekshan survey to rank 73 cities in 2016.
• It was conducted based on 71 parameters, including
  • open defecation, garbage collection
  • dumpster-free street
  • beautification projects
  • public toilets and mapping of public toilets.
• Every year MoHUA awarded the title of ‘Swachh Cities’ based on their cleanliness and sanitation drives as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
• This is the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country.
• The objective is to generating large scale citizen participation in the Mission, along with inculcating a spirit of healthy competition among cities towards becoming India’s cleanest cities.

Source : Indian Express

Topic

Prelims : About the Swachh Survekshan, Survey details

GS III : Role of women and women’s organization, population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues, urbanization, their problems and their remedies

GS III : Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector/Services relating to Health, Education, Human Resources