Odisha capital wins Top Mover award in Swacch Sarvekshan

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Bhubaneswar, Feb 15:

The capital city, which topped in the Smart City list recently, has failed to secure a place in the top 20s in the Swacch Sarvekshan 2016 survey, results of which where announced by Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu at New Delhi today.

Though Bhubaneswar has not figured among the cleanest cities, the Temple city has bagged the Top Mover (East Zone) award securing 24^th position among 73 cities across the country.  Interestingly, Cuttack has ranked 59^th and has been bracketed in the Slow Mover list.

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Krishan Kumar and Mayor Anant Narayan Jena received the award from Urban Development Minister for being one of the cleanest cities in the country.

Speaking at a press conference held at National Media Centre, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu announced that Mysuru has topped the list in Clean City list followed by Chandigarh and Tirucharapalli.

Swachh Survekshan survey, conducted in cities with 10 lakh and above population, has revealed that cities in south and east India have taken better to the Swachh Bharat Mission than cities in north and west India.

The nation-wide survey was conducted to assess the measures taken by the cities to improve sanitation, present service levels including infrastructure developed and in progress, deployment of men and machines, strategies being followed, efforts to bring about behavioural changes and the overall impact of Swachh Bharat Mission besides promoting a spirit of competition among cities.

The list in chronological order:

The 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