73 cities surveyed for cleanliness have been categorized based on the marks scored by each of them in the ‘Swachh Survekshan-2016’ survey, results of which were announced by the Urban Development Minister Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu today.

                15 cities who scored more than 70% of the total marks of 2000 were categorized as Leaders, 20 cities with scores in the range of 60%-70% are Aspiring Leaders, those with scores in the range of 50%-60% are the cities who need to accelerate their efforts and cities who scored below 50% are named Slow Movers who need to work harder to improve santiation.

Leaders :

Rank City

1.Mysuru

2.Chadigarh

3.Tiruchirapalli

4.New Delhi Municipal council

5.Visakhapatnam

6.Surat

7.Rajkot

8.Gangtok

9.Pimprichindwad                                    

10.Greater Mumbai

11.Pune

12.Navi Mumabi

13.Vadodara

14.Ahmedabad

15.Imphal

Aspiring Leaders:

Rank City

16.Panaji

17.Thane

18.Coimattore

19.Hyderabad

20.Nagpur

21.Bhopal

22.Allahabad

23.Vijayawada

24.Bhubaneswar

25.Indore

26.Madurai

27.Shimla

28.Lucknow

29.Jaipur

30.Gwalior

31.Nashik

32.Warangal

33.Agartala

34.Ludhiana

35.Vasai-Virar

Acceleration required:

Rank city

36.Chennai

37.Gurgaon

38.Bengaluru

39.South Muncipal Corporation of Delhi

40.Thiruvananthapuram

41.Aizawl

42.Gandhinagar

43.North MCD

44.Kozhikode

45.Kanpur

46.Durg

47.Agra

48.Srinagar

49.Amritsar

50.Guwahati

51.Faridabad

52.East MCD

53.Shillong

Slow Movers:

Rank City

54.Hubbali-Dharwad (Karnataka)

55.Kochi

56.Aurangabad

57.Jodhpur

58.Kota

59.Cuttack

60.Kohima

61.Dehradun

62.Ranchi

63.Jabalpur

64.Kalyan Dombivili (Maharashtra)

65.Varanasi

66.Jamshedpur

67.Ghaziabad

68.Raipur

69.Meerut

70.Patna

71.Itanagar

72.Asansol

73.Dhanbad.

AAR

February 15,2016