Navi Mumbai has been named India’s cleanest city in the central government’s annual cleanliness survey, ending Indore’s eight-year run among the top-ranked cities. Surat and Vijayawada followed Navi Mumbai in the overall ranking, according to the results reported by PTI.
President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards at an event in New Delhi. The rankings cover multiple city categories based on population, geography and urban setting, placing municipal sanitation and cleanliness performance at the centre of the annual assessment.
Indore, which had been ranked the cleanest city for the past eight years, did not figure among this year’s toppers. The change makes Navi Mumbai’s result the most significant development in the latest awards, while also marking a shift in the survey’s overall city leadership.
In the category for cities with populations between three lakh and 10 lakh, Ujjain secured the top position, followed by Chandigarh and Guntur. Greater Visakhapatnam emerged as the cleanest city among urban areas with populations above 10 lakh, with Jabalpur placed second and Lucknow third.
The survey also recognised cities according to distinct urban and geographical contexts. Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa was named the cleanest riverfront town, followed by Bilaspur and Varanasi. In the Swachh Coastal Town category, Puri ranked first, followed by Alappuzha in Kerala and Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri.
Rudrapur was named the cleanest Himalayan city, while Jammu secured the second position in that category. The spread of awards across population groups, riverfront settlements, coastal towns and Himalayan cities indicates that the cleanliness assessment is not limited to a single national ranking but also compares cities within different urban conditions.
The results place Navi Mumbai’s municipal cleanliness performance at the forefront of the latest national survey. The Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry’s awards provide the immediate official recognition, while the next survey cycle will determine whether the city can retain its position and whether Indore returns to the list of leading cities.
