Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep Singh Puri on December 31, 2019 announced the results of Swachh Survekshan League 2020, for first and second Quarters in New Delhi.
In the 10 lakh plus population category, Indore secured first place in both the quarters. Bhopal got the second and Surat in Gujarat third spot in first Quarter. In the second quarter, Rajkot in Gujarat was at the nd spot while Navi Mumbai at third.
In one lakh to 10 lakh population category, Jamshedpur in Jharkhand got the 1st spot in both quarters. New Delhi Municipal Council (NMDC) and Khargone in Madhya Pradesh got the second and third spot in the first quarter in this category. Chandrapur in Maharashtra and Khargone got the second and third spot in Quarter 2 in one to ten lakh population category.
Background
Swachh Survekshan League 2020 (SS League 2020) was introduced with the objective of sustaining the onground performance of cities along with continuous monitoring of service level performance when it comes to cleanliness.
SS League 2020 is being conducted in 3 quarters, i.e. April- June, July – September and October- December 2019 and has 2000 marks for each quarter evaluated on the basis of monthly updation of SBM-U online MIS by cities along with citizen’s validation on the 12 service level progress indicators through outbound calls. Ranks have been assigned in two categories, namely, cities with population of one lakh and above (with two sub-categories, i.e. 1-10 lakh and 10 lakhs and above) and cities with population of less than 1 lakh (under the < 1 lakh population category, the rankings are given zone and population wise).
The performance of cities in SS League 2020 is crucial to their ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2020 due to the 25% weightage of the quarterly assessments to be included in the annual survey scheduled to commence from 4 January till 31 January 2020.
