Mysore tops Swachh Bharat rankings for 476 cities ; 4 cities from Karnataka in top 10 West Bengal does well with 25 cities in top 100 ; 39 cities from South in top 100;

Mysore tops Swachh Bharat rankings for 476 cities ; 4 cities from Karnataka in top 10 West Bengal does well with 25 cities in top 100 ; 39 cities from South in top 100;

12 from North 74 cities from North in bottom 100; 21 from East; 3 from West and 2 from South Delhi Cantonment ranked 15; NDMC -16 and MCD at 398

                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 7^th 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 467^th 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.