Swachh Bharat rankings: Indore is India's cleanest city, Bhopal comes 2nd

Swachh Bharat - Indore in Madhya Pradesh has been declared the cleanest city in India under the Swachh Survekshan 2017.

The Ministry of Urban Development's official Twitter handle released the rankings on Thursday.  The cleanliness rankings of 434 cities and towns were announced.

After Indore, Madhya Pradesh's capital Bhopal ranked as the second cleanest city in the country. Visakhapatnam, in Andhra Pradesh, came third, Gujarat's Surat fourth and Karnataka's Mysuru fifth.


Union Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu announced the rankings. Naidu said that 3.7 million citizens had responded this year by providing valuable feedback on their municipalities’ performance.

New Delhi Municipal Council missed out on the top five ranks and came in at the seventh position, followed by Navi Mumbai.
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Not just UP: Niti Aayog has worked on Rajasthan, MP development model too

The Centre’s main think-tank, the NITI Aayog is reportedly working on developing a growth plan for Uttar Pradesh, where the ruling BJP, came back to power after more than a decade.

According to reports, a team from the Aayog is expected to visit the state later this month to discuss the development plan with senior officials and ministers of the state government.

However, this is not first time that the Aayog has helped a state in undertaking reforms or suggesting a roadmap for its growth.

Infact, cooperative federalism is at the very core of Aayog’s philosophy and working.

The Aayog which has replaced the Planning Commission of India has worked very closely with the Rajasthan state government to amend obsolete and unnecessary laws in the state. It also plans to do the same with Madhya Pradesh.

It is helping major states amend their land leasing laws and has so far successfully managed to convince couple of them to amend their decades-old land leasing laws.

Madhya Pradesh along with Odisha have been working on amending their land leasing laws that would make leasing legal and would also ensure that the tenant farmer gets full legal right to compensation, insurance etc in case of crop damage without impacting the legal ownership.

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