Swachh Survekshan 2023 Ranking List – Complete Details

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched Swachh Survekshan 2023. Central govt. has launched this program under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) to focus on sustainability of initiatives and also encourage large scale participation of citizens. Swachh Survekshan 2024 Ranking List of states performing better would be released soon. In 2023, Swachh Survekshan state rankings has been announced.

Every year, Swachh Survekshan is redesigned innovatively to ensure the process becomes more robust with focus on sustaining the behavior change. This is the 6th edition of the annual cleanliness survey and the exercise this year focuses on wastewater treatment and other parameters. This Swachh Bharat Survey is conducted across all cities and towns across the country. Swachh Survekshan focuses on garbage free and open defecation free cities.

What is Swachh Survekshan

Swachh Survekshan is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and towns across India. It was launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aimed to make India clean and free of open defecation by 2nd October. The first survey was undertaken in 2016 and covered 73 cities; by 2020 the survey had grown to cover 4242 cities and was said to be the largest cleanliness survey in the world.

In a bid to scale up the coverage of the ranking exercise and encourage towns and cities to actively implement mission initiatives in a timely and innovative manner, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is now in the process of conducting the sixth edition of the survey to rank all cities under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) with Quality Council of India (QCI) as its implementation partner.

Swachh Survekshan 2023 Ranking List

President Ram Nath Kovind crowns Indore in Madhya Pradesh with the “Swachhata Ka Taaj” by President Ram Nath Kovind at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ function organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The city has clinched India’s cleanest city title for the fifth time in a row.

India’s Cleanest Cities Ranking – Population Wise

Here is the ranking list of India’s cleanest cities with regard to population.

Cities Having More than 1 Lakh Population

Rank	Absolute Rank	City Name	Score
1	1	INDORE	9348
1	1	SURAT	9348
3	3	NAVI MUMBAI	9240
4	4	GVMC VISAKHAPATNAM	8879
5	5	BHOPAL	8855
6	6	VIJAYAWADA	8751
7	7	NEW DELHI (NDMC)	8728
8	8	TIRUPATI	8624
9	9	GREATER HYDERABAD	8601
10	10	PUNE	8595
11	11	CHANDIGARH	8541
12	12	RAIPUR	8540
13	13	PIMPRI CHINCHWAD	8537
14	17	NOIDA	8117
15	18	AHMEDABAD	8041
16	19	GWALIOR	7995
17	20	GUNTUR	7982
18	21	BARAMATI	7969
19	22	UJJAIN	7930
20	23	MIRA-BHAYANDAR	7889
21	24	PANVEL	7825
22	26	JABALPUR	7761
23	27	MYSORE	7753
24	31	THANE	7520
25	32	DEWAS	7520
26	34	KORBA	7476
27	35	AMBIKAPUR	7467
28	36	BILASPUR	7467
29	37	RAJKOT	7466
30	38	GANDHINAGAR	7453
31	39	NASHIK	7372
32	41	KURNOOL	7359
33	42	VADODARA	7344
34	44	BHUBANESWAR	7315
35	47	SINGRAULI	7284
36	49	KATNI	7279
37	52	KHANDWA	7248
38	54	GHAZIABAD (M. Corp)	7222
39	60	AHMEDANAGAR	7156
40	63	ALIGARH (M. Corp)	7137
41	70	VARANASI (M. Corp)	7107
42	74	REWA	7064
43	78	JAMSHEDPUR	7042
44	84	LUCKNOW (M. Corp)	7009
45	93	DATIA	6921
46	95	RATLAM	6911
47	99	KHARGONE	6905
48	110	CHANDRAPUR_M	6873
49	114	SATARA	6862
50	115	SEHORE	6860
51	121	MANDSAUR	6833
52	125	FIROZABAD (M.CORP.)	6823
53	126	PITHAMPUR	6820
54	128	BETUL	6810
55	133	CHHINDWARA	6801
56	134	PANAJI	6793
57	135	DHULE	6792
58	136	KADAPA	6791
59	142	RAJAHMUNDRY	6764
60	152	GUNA	6743
61	154	AURANGABAD	6738
62	156	PURI (M)	6737
63	159	SOLAPUR	6720
64	162	RISALI (NN)	6712
65	170	BURHANPUR	6679
66	174	WARDHA	6665
67	190	KALYAN DOMBIVALI	6583
68	192	DEHRADUN	6579
69	211	BHIND	6528
70	228	SAGAR	6453
71	232	PRAYAGRAJ (M. Corp)	6433
72	234	HOSHANGABAD	6428
73	241	VIDISHA	6410
74	242	KANPUR (M. Corp)	6410
75	243	GORAKHPUR (M. Corp)	6404
76	251	SAHARANPUR (M. Corp)	6365
77	264	PATNA	6321
78	267	BHILAI NAGAR	6311
79	268	RAJNANDGAON	6311
80	278	BAREILLY (M. Corp)	6294
81	290	KARIMNAGAR	6241
82	305	S.A.S. NAGAR (MOHALI)	6204
83	307	JAMNAGAR	6198
84	314	DURG	6181
85	325	AGRA (M. Corp)	6165
86	326	NAGPUR	6164
87	331	HUBLI-DHARWAD	6154
88	334	BARSHI	6144
89	345	CHHATARPUR	6118
90	347	MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI	6115
91	356	SATNA	6095
92	358	NALGONDA	6093
93	361	LATUR	6090
94	369	MATHURA-VRINDAVAN (M. Corp)	6074
95	370	RAIGARH	6071
96	372	JHANSI (M. Corp)	6065
97	377	MAHBUBNAGAR	6056
98	386	DAMOH	6031
99	388	BALESHWAR TOWN (M)	6030
100	389	AYODHYA (M.CORP.)	6028

Visit the official website at https://ss2023.sbmurban.org for detailed rankings.

How Cities are Ranked for Swachh Survekshan Awards

Now the question arises that “How the Cities are Ranked in Swachh Survekshan 2023”, here we will answer this question.

Part 1: Service Level Progress (SLP) – Data provided by ULBs

Part 2: Certification – Based on GFC Star rating, ODF+/ODF++/Water+

Part 3: Based on GFC Star rating, ODF+/ODF++/Water+ – It includes 5 components namely Feedback, engagement, experience, Swachhta app, Innovation

Part 4: Final Score – Cities are ranked based on marks obtained from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Swachh Survekshan Toolkit PDF Download

Here is the process to download Swachh Survekshan Toolkit in PDF format.

Visit the official PDF link at https://ss-result-2023.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/SS+2023+final+Toolkit.pdf

Cities Categories Indicators

The survey will categories cities on the basis of 6 indicator-wise performance criteria, which are as follows:
A) Segregation of waste into wet, dry and hazard categories.
B) Processing capacity against wet waste generated.
C) Processing and recycling of wet and dry waste.
D) Construction & demolition (C&D) waste processing.
E) Percentage of waste going to landfills.
F) Sanitation status of cities.

Objectives of Swachh Survekshan Abhiyan

The main objectives of conducting Swachh Survekshan survey are as follows:-

• Encourage large scale citizen participation.
• Ensure sustainability of initiatives taken towards garbage free cities.
• Provide credible outcomes which would be validated by third party certification.
• Ensure sustainability of initiatives taken towards open defecation free cities.
• Institutionalize existing systems through online processes.
• Create awareness amongst all sections of society.
• Importance of working together towards making towns and cities more habitable and sustainable.
• Foster a spirit of healthy competition amongst towns and cities.
• Improve service delivery to citizens and move towards creating cleaner cities.

MoHUA & QCI will conduct intensive virtual interactions with States and ULBs to familiarize them with various facets of the survey such as survey methodology, survey process and indicators, amongst others, while also clarifying their expectations from the survey.