Indore hits hat-trick by grabbing the 'cleanest city' tag yet again

Indore has been consistent in its record setting for being adjudged India’s cleanest city for the third consecutive year. The Union Ministry of Urban Development (MoHUA) recently released the latest list of clean cities after carrying out a cleanliness survey under ‘Swachh Sarvekshan’.

The second and third positions were grabbed by Ambikapur in Chhattisgarh and Mysore in Karnataka. The Swachh Survekshan awards 2019 were handed out by President Ramnath Kovind recently. Referring to this, the President said that there is a need to change the mindset of people towards cleanliness as many people pay a lot of attention to person hygiene and cleanliness at home, but don’t pay attention to public cleanliness. The culture of cleanliness has to become an integral part in the lives of citizens. He also added that cleanliness should also be added in the school curriculums and higher educational institutions.
The said survey was carried out by the MoHUA from January 4 to 31, 2019. The department said that the survey was completely digitised and paperless. In fact, they captured 41 lakh geotagged photographs and 4.5 lakh uploaded documents. The department further added that feedback from 64 lakh citizens and a social media outreach of INR 4 crore was also added.

With Indore hitting a hat-trick this year, it seems that Madhya Pradesh has cracked the conundrum of cleanliness in various sections.