Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 Ranking List - Indore Cleanest City for 8th Time

Swachh Survekshan is the annual cleanliness survey run by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). Results of the 9th edition, Swachh Survekshan 2024-25, were announced on 17 July 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. Central govt. runs this survey to focus on the sustainability of cleanliness work and to encourage large scale participation of citizens.

Indore kept the title of India's cleanest city for the eighth time in a row. Surat and Navi Mumbai took the next two spots. President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards at the ceremony, and Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was also present.

Every year, Swachh Survekshan is redesigned to make the process stronger and to focus on sustaining behavior change. The survey is conducted across all cities and towns in the country and focuses on garbage free and open defecation free cities.

This edition of the survey was judged on a framework of 10 parameters and 54 indicators covering sanitation, waste management and service delivery. The exercise is carried out with Quality Council of India (QCI) as the implementation partner.

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 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aimed to make India clean and free of open defecation by 2nd October. The first survey was done 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.

To scale up the coverage of the ranking exercise and encourage towns and cities to carry out mission work on time, MoHUA conducts the survey to rank all cities under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) with Quality Council of India (QCI) as its implementation partner.

Detail	Information
Survey Name	Swachh Survekshan
Conducted By	Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA)
Under	Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM)
Latest Edition	Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 (9th edition)
Results Announced	17 July 2025
Cleanest City	Indore (8th consecutive year)
Implementation Partner	Quality Council of India (QCI)
Official Website	sbmurban.org

Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 Ranking List

Indore in Madhya Pradesh clinched the "Swachhata Ka Taaj" as India's cleanest city for the eighth time in a row. Surat finished second and Navi Mumbai took the third position in the annual cleanliness survey.

Ahmedabad, Bhopal and Lucknow came up as the new clean cities in this edition. Vijayawada made it to the fourth place in the Super Swachh League category. A total of 78 awards were given out this year across four categories.

The awards were presented in four categories: Super Swachh League Cities, top 3 clean cities in 5 population groups, special category awards for Ganga towns, cantonment boards, SafaiMitra Suraksha and Mahakumbh, and state level awards for the promising clean city of each state or union territory.

Cities were divided into five population groups for the awards: Million-Plus Cities (over 10 lakh), Big Cities (3 to 10 lakh), Medium Cities (50,000 to 3 lakh), Small Cities (20,000 to 50,000) and Very Small Cities (below 20,000). Noida was the cleanest city in the second population group, followed by Chandigarh, Mysuru, Ujjain and Gandhinagar.

India's Cleanest Cities Ranking - Population Wise

Here is the ranking list of India's cleanest cities with regard to population from the earlier Swachh Survekshan 2023 edition for reference.

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 sbmurban.org for detailed rankings and the latest updates.

How Cities are Ranked for Swachh Survekshan Awards

Now the question arises that "How the Cities are Ranked in Swachh Survekshan", 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: Citizen Voice - 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 Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 Toolkit PDF to download the latest toolkit.

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.
• Make sure the work taken up towards garbage free cities stays on track.
• Provide credible outcomes which would be checked by third party certification.
• Make sure the work taken up towards open defecation free cities stays on track.
• Set up existing systems through online processes.
• Create awareness amongst all sections of society.
• Show the importance of working together towards making towns and cities more livable and sustainable.
• Build a spirit of healthy competition amongst towns and cities.
• Improve service delivery to citizens and move towards cleaner cities.

MoHUA & QCI will conduct intensive virtual interactions with States and ULBs to make them familiar with various parts of the survey such as survey method, survey process and indicators, while also clearing up their expectations from the survey.