The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind today felicitated the awardees of the cleanest cities of India at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ hosted as part of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. The award ceremony, organized to recognize the good work done for Swachhata by towns/ cities, States and Union Territories under various initiatives of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban), viz. Swachh Survekshan 2021, Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge, and certifications for Garbage Free Star rating for cities – saw more than 300 awards under various categories being given away through the day.
Belagavi Ranking Swachh Survekshan 2021
Rank #172 (Out of 372)
Rank #8 (Out of 13)
In 2020 the ranking was 269
In 2019 the ranking was 277
This seems to be a significant improvement in the ranking.
The Cantonment Board Belagavi has been ranked 48 in 2021 while it was ranked 38 in 2020, 44 in 2019 and 51 in 2018.
The ranking of the Cantonment has gone down by 10 places.
For the fifth consecutive year, Indore was awarded the title of India’s Cleanest City under Swachh Survekshan, while Surat and Vijayawada bagged the second and third spots respectively in the ‘more than 1 lakh population’ category. In the population category of ‘less than 1 lakh’, Vita, Lonavala and Sasvad, all from Maharashtra, bagged the first, second and third positions respectively. Varanasi emerged as the ‘Best Ganga Town’ while Ahmedabad Cantonment won the title of ‘India’s Cleanest Cantonment’, followed by Meerut Cantonment and Delhi Cantonment. In the category of ‘Fastest Mover’, Hoshangabad (Madhya Pradesh) emerged as the ‘Fastest Mover City’ (in the ‘more than 1 lakh population’ category) with a jump of 274 ranks from 361st position in the 2020 rankings to the 87th position this year, thus securing a place among the top 100 cities.
In the State awards, Chhattisgarh, for the third consecutive year emerged as the ‘Cleanest State’ in the category of “more than 100 Urban Local Bodies” while Jharkhand, for the second time, won the Cleanest State award in the “less than 100 ULBs category”. Karnataka and Mizoram became the ‘Fastest Mover States’ in the big (more than 100 ULBs) and small (less than 100 ULBs) state category respectively.
Never ever belagavi will be a clean City, even after three years still the roads are not completed, every sub roads are joined so haphazardly that we can’t even get our vehicle to the main road, everywhere incomplete. Don’t know how people are tolerating. Even the street sweepers aren’t given proper brooms, you can see them dragging a plain plastic sheet in which all the garbage is pushed, sometimes it keeps falling out from behind but never they recollect, at so many roads there are no street lights burning, such is the belagavi corporation