GUWAHATI/ NEW DELHI July 17: Guwahati has emerged as the cleanest capital of the northeast in the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ rankings, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday.
Sarma also said that all four AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) cities in the state – Guwahati, Silchar, Nagaon and Dibrugarh – are now garbage-free.
“In the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2024-25, Guwahati and North Lakhimpur have been awarded as the Promising Swachh Sheher of Assam,” he said in a post on X.
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Six cities have received ODF++ certification, while prominent cities moved up the cleanliness rankings, the CM said.
As per the ‘Swachh Survekshan’ rankings for 2024-25, Guwahati has been named the cleanest capital city of the northeast. Assam’s capital Dispur is a locality within Guwahati.
Guwahati has moved to the middle rung in the category (3 lakh to 10 lakh population) from the bottom of the pile last year, he said.
All four AMRUT cities in the state have secured GFC (garbage-free city) 1-star ranking. None had featured last year, Sarma said.
The cities getting ODF++ certification this year did not have the recognition in the previous rankings, he said.
Ahmedabad was named the cleanest big city, followed by Bhopal and Lucknow in the annual cleanliness survey, even as Indore, Surat, Navi Mumbai and Vijayawada were elevated to a newly formed ‘Super Swachh League Cities’ category for demonstrating exceptional performance in sanitation, an official release said.
The results of the Swachh Survekshan were announced on Thursday.
According to the government, 14 crore people participated in the survey through face-to-face interactions, the Swachhata App, MyGov and social media platforms in over 4,500 cities.
Seventy-eight awards were presented this year across four categories — Super Swachh League Cities; Top three clean cities in five population categories; Special Category: Ganga Towns, Cantonment Boards, Safai Mitra Suraksha, Mahakumbh; and State-Level Awards — promising clean city of a state or Union Territory.
Under the new category ‘Super Swachh League’, Noida emerged as the topper, followed by Chandigarh, Mysore, Ujjain, Gandhinagar and Guntur in the three to ten lakh population category.
New Delhi (NDMC), Tirupati, Ambikapur and Lonavala have been part of the 50,000 to three lakh population category. These cities in their five-population categories will compete with each other as they have been made part of the ‘Super Swachh League Cities’ and the results will be announced in the next cleanliness survey.
President Droupadi Murmu gave away the awards to the winners at an event which was attended by Union Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) Minister Manohar Lal and others. (PTI)
