Swachh Survekshan Awards 2020: Surat has been named the second cleanest city 

NE NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI, AUG 20

The Centre awarded Indore as the cleanest city in the nation on Thursday at the Swachh Survekshan Awards. Union Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri in a virtual event congratulated Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj S Chouhan and also congratulated civic authorities of Indore. Indore has won the cleanest city award for the fourth consecutive time.

Indore is India’s cleanest city in Swachh Survekshan 2020, the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country.

The city has bagged the spot fourth time in a row. Gujarat’s Surat on second spot and Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai on third.

Cleanest city with over 40 lakh population award was won by Ahmedabad and Vijayawada won in the category of city with population between 10 lakh to 40 lakh. Fastest mover big city award was won by Rajasthan’s Jodhpur. Gujarat’s Rajkot won the best self sustainable city award. In the category of 3 to 10 lakh population, cleanest city award went to Karnataka’s Mysuru.