Swachh Survekshan 2025-26

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President Droupadi Murmu recently felicitated the winners of the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26 at a ceremony held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.

About Swachh Survekshan 2025-26

• The 10th edition of the annual Swachh Survekshan Awards, organized by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U)
• It is the world’s largest urban cleanliness survey and a key pillar of the SBM-U.
• Launched in 2016, the survey assesses cleanliness and sanitation standards in urban areas across the country, encouraging competition among cities to improve waste management and sanitation. 
• Over 4,751 cities participated in the latest edition. It expanded its coverage to include the Hills and Himalayan cities as well as River front and coastal towns.  
• This year 60 national awards have been announced, under the following categories:
  • Clean Cities of Super Swachh League
  • Swachh Shehar in 5 population categories
  • Swachh River Front Town
  • Swachh Coastal Town
  • Clean Himalayan City
  • Swachh Shehar Jodi (SSJ)
  • State First Swachh City

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Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 Rankings

• Super Swachh League (Recognises sustained excellence in cleanliness): 
  1. Navi Mumbai
  2. Surat
  3. Vijayawad
• Million Plus Population Category:
  1. Greater Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh)
  2. Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) 
  3. Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) 
• Big Cities (Population 3–10 Lakh Category):
  1. Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)
  2. Union Territory of Chandigarh
  3. Guntur (Andhra Pradesh)
• Medium Cities (Population 50000–3 Lakh Category):
  1. Dewas  (Madhya Pradesh)
  2. New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC)
  3. Sagar (Madhya Pradesh)
• Small Cities (Population 20000–50000 Category): 
  1. Vita (Maharashtra)
  2. Aska (Odisha)
  3. Panaji (Goa)
• Very Small Cities (Population < 20000 Category):
  1. Bilha (Chhattisgarh)
  2. Panchgani (Maharashtra)
  3. Budhni (Madhya Pradesh)
• Indore, which had been ranked the cleanest city in the country for the past eight years, did not figure among the toppers this year. 
• New Award Categories:
• Swachh River Front Town: 
  1. Rewa (Madhya Pradesh)
  2. Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) 
  3. Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh).
• Swachh Coastal Town: 
  1. Puri (Odisha)
  2. Alappuzha (Keralam)
  3.  Ratnagiri (Maharashtra).
• Clean Himalayan City: 
  1. Rudrapur (Uttarakhand)
  2. Jammu
  3. Shopian 
• Swachh Shehar Jodi Initiative: 
  • It is a city-to-city mentorship and peer-learning programme launched under the SBM-U.
  • 70 mentor cities have been paired with 191 mentee cities to facilitate knowledge-sharing and improve sanitation outcomes. 
  • Ahmedabad and its partner town Sanand secured the top position in this category.
  • Indore, with its partner town, Depalpur, secured the second position, while Tirupati and its partner town, Kuppam, ranked third.

News: DDN