The Ahmedabad Swachhata Survey Award for 2025-26 was celebrated at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s headquarters in Danapith on November 12, after Ahmedabad and Sanand were reported to have secured the top position as a clean city pair. Municipal officials and elected representatives credited sanitation workers and residents for the achievement.
The celebration included fireworks at the civic headquarters, followed by an immediate clean-up of the waste generated on the corporation premises. Mayor Hitesh Barot, other office-bearers and officials were present during the event, which was held after the award was received in the Swachhata Survey 2025-26.
According to Divya Bhaskar’s report, Barot said the city’s sanitation performance had improved through the combined work of municipal cleaning staff and citizens. He said Ahmedabad had earlier faced areas with large garbage heaps, but door-to-door collection and waste segregation had since been introduced. The report also said that arrangements had been made to move waste directly from homes to the dumping site.
Barot attributed the result to cleaning operations carried out during both the day and night, as well as cooperation from residents. He said the civic administration would continue working to retain the top position in future sanitation assessments.
The report separately noted that Sanand had been ranked 573rd earlier and had now reached the first position in the cited clean-city pairing. It did not provide the survey’s full methodology, category criteria, scoring details or the date on which the final ranking was formally announced.
A meeting of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s standing committee was also held on November 12, described in the report as the first such meeting of the new year. The committee acknowledged the award and thanked officials involved in sanitation and solid-waste management.
Sanitation workers, including women and men, were felicitated with flowers and sweets. Those present included Mayor Hitesh Barot, Deputy Mayor Anjuben Shah, standing committee chairman Kamlesh Patel, ruling party leader Jashu Thakor, whip Atul Mishra, the deputy municipal commissioner and officials from the solid-waste-management department.
The recognition places routine municipal operations such as waste collection, segregation, street cleaning and disposal at the centre of the city’s sanitation performance. The report did not provide separate figures for collection coverage, segregation rates, waste volumes, processing capacity or complaints, so the award alone does not establish how performance varied across Ahmedabad’s neighbourhoods.
The civic administration’s stated next step is to maintain the first position through continued participation by sanitation workers, municipal departments and residents. The immediate clean-up after the celebration was presented by the mayor and officials as a public demonstration of the sanitation message associated with the award.
