Tirupati has won the Super Swachh League award for the fourth consecutive year, while its sanitation partnership with Kuppam secured third place nationally in the Swachh Shehar Jodi category under Swachh Survekshan 2025–26.
President Droupadi Murmu presented the recognition to Andhra Pradesh minister Dr. P. Narayana, principal secretary S. Suresh Kumar and Municipal Corporation of Tirupati commissioner M. Jayakrishna at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on Wednesday, according to the report.
The latest Tirupati Swachh Survekshan award continues the temple city’s run among India’s leading urban local bodies. Tirupati has remained among the top five cities in successive cleanliness surveys since 2019, with the latest recognition marking its fourth consecutive national-level award in the Super Swachh League.
The Swachh Survekshan assessment covers several municipal functions, including door-to-door garbage collection, toilet maintenance, solid waste management, reducing waste sent to dumping yards, beautification of public spaces, reuse of waste materials and e-waste collection. The award therefore reflects performance across a range of sanitation and urban services rather than a single cleanliness campaign.
Jayakrishna attributed the achievement to the cooperation of Tirupati residents, sanitation workers and civic officials. He said the recognition had increased the municipal corporation’s responsibility to maintain cleanliness and improve the city’s surroundings.
Tirupati also secured third place with Kuppam in the Swachh Shehar Jodi category. The programme uses a mentoring model under which better-performing cities guide other municipalities in improving sanitation systems and developing garbage-free urban areas. Tirupati was designated as Kuppam’s mentor city by the state government.
The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati was also entrusted with guiding Jammalamadugu, Mydukur, Madakasira and Kamalapuram. A five-member team led by municipal health officer Dr. Yuva Anvesh trained officials and sanitation workers in these municipalities, sharing practices related to waste collection, processing and public sanitation.
Kuppam subsequently won recognition in the partnership category. The result places the focus not only on Tirupati’s own municipal performance but also on whether sanitation practices can be transferred between urban local bodies with different administrative capacities and service conditions.
The award comes as municipalities continue to be assessed on the reliability of everyday systems such as waste collection, processing, public toilet maintenance and the management of dumping sites. For Tirupati, the next task identified by its commissioner is to sustain the standards that produced the recognition and improve the city’s surroundings.
