OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2015.Mysore city in Karnataka has topped the Swachh Bharat Rankings of 476 cities in the country with three more from the State figuring in the top 10. West Bengal does well with 25 cities/towns from the State finding a place in the top 100 cities. These rankings are based on the extent of open defecation and solid waste management practices in these cities. The city of Mysore leads the cities with minimal open defecation and extensive adoption of solid waste management practices.

39 cities from the Southern states are among the top 100 followed by 27 from the East, 15 from the West, 12 from the North and 7 from the North-Eastern States.

15 of the 27 capital cities surveyed figured among the top 100 performers while five were ranked beyond 300. Bengaluru leads the list of capitals at 7th rank while Patna came at the bottom at 429.

Among the bottom 100 cities, 74 are from the North, 21 from the East, 3 from the West and 2 from the South.

The top 10 ranked cities being : Mysore, Thiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), Navi Mumbai, Kochi (Kerala), Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru from Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Halisahar (West Bengal) and Gangtok (Sikkim) in that order.

Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) came at the bottom of 476, preceded by Bhind(MP), Palwal and Bhiwani, both in Haryana, Chittaurgarh (Rajasthan), Bulandshahar (UP), Neemuch (MP), Rewari(Haryana), Hindaun (Rajasthan) and Sambalpur in Odisha at 467th rank.

All the 476 Class-1 cities in 31 States and Union Territories, each  with a population of above one lakh were surveyed for assessing  total sanitation practices covering a set of parameters including the extent of open defecation, solid waste management, septage management, waste water treatment, drinking water quality, surface water quality of water bodies and mortality due to water born diseases etc.

The survey conducted during 2014-15 was commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development as required under the National Sanitation Policy of 2008.

Since the Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented in urban areas with focus on construction of individual household, community and public toilets to eradicate open defecation and ensure door-to-door collection and disposal of municipal solid waste, all the 476 Class-1 cities have been ranked based on the data pertaining to these elements from out of the date generated in the survey. This helps in assessing the present situation in these cities so that they can undertake necessary interventions to  meet Swachh Bharat Mission targets in urban areas.

Over all sanitation rankings of these cities based on a total of 100 marks assigned to different parameters covering all aspects would be announced later. The Swachh Bharat rankings are based on a total of 42 marks including 20 for open defecation indicators and 22 for solid waste management indicators.

Swachh Bharat ranking of capital cities :

S.No

Capital city

Swachh Bharat Rank

1

Bengaluru

7

2

Trivendrum

8

3

Gangtok

10

4

New Delhi Municipal

Council

16

5

Chandigarh

21

6

Puducherry

23

7

Agartala

32

8

Port Blair

34

9

Aizawl

35

10

Guwahaty

51

11

Kolkata

56

12

Chennai

61

13

Dimapur

76

14

Imphal

83

15

Shimla

90

16

Bhopal

106

17

Shillong

120

18

Greater Mumbai

140

19

Srinagar

152

20

Lucknow

220

21

Ranchi

223

22

Hyderabad

275

24

Raipur

293

24

Gandhinagar

310

25

Bhubaneswar

331

26

Dehradun

360

27

Jaipur

370

28

Patna

429

 Swachh Bharat ranking of other major cities :

S.no

City

Swachh Bharat Rank

1

Mangalore

11

2

Madurai

20

3

Jalandhar

28

4

Pune

31

5

Kozhikode

41

6

Surat

63

7

Ahmedabad

79

8

Jamshedpur

109

9

Anantnag

115

10

Darjeeling

129

11

Tirupati

137

12

Agra

145

13

Secunderabad

191

14

Coimbattore

196

15

Visakhapatnam

205

16

Raibareilly

240

17

Kanpur

241

18

Nagpur

256

19

Vijayawada

266

20

Cuttack

296

21

Puri

298

22

Ujjain

355

23

Ludhiana

381

24

Allahabad

383

25

Gwalior

400

26

Ajmer

401

27

Udaipur

417

28

Varanasi

418

29

Jammu

427

30

Amritsar

430

Number of cities surveyed in major States include : UP (61), West Bengal (60), Mharashtra (43), MP(32), Gujarat (30), AP(30), Tamil Nadu(29), Rajasthan(28), Bihar (27), Karnataka (26), Haryana(20), Punjab(16), Telangana (11), Odisha (10), Jharkhand(10), Chattisgarh(9) and 6 each from Kerala, Uttarakhand and North-Eastern states.