{"id":87356,"date":"2020-08-21T00:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17023"},"modified":"2020-08-21T00:28:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:58:17","slug":"swachh-survekshan-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/swachh-survekshan-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Swachh Survekshan 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs has released the results of Swachh Survekshan 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Swachh Survekshan: <\/strong>It is an annual cleanliness survey of urban India conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under the aegis of Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban(SBM-U).&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Objectives: a) <\/strong>To encourage large scale citizen participation and create awareness about cleanliness <strong>b)<\/strong> inculcate a spirit of healthy competition among cities and towns towards creating cleaner cities\/towns.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>India&#8217;s Cleanest cities: <\/strong>Indore(MP) followed by Surat(Gujarat) and Navi Mumbai(Maharashtra).<\/li><li><strong>Best States: <\/strong>Chhattisgarh was the best-performing state with over 100 ULBs.On the other hand, Jharkhand was the best performing state with less than 100 ULBs.<\/li><li><strong>Ganga Towns: <\/strong>Varanasi has been awarded the cleanest town award along the banks of river Ganga.<\/li><li><strong>Cleanest Capital city: <\/strong>New Delhi has been awarded as the cleanest capital city in the country.<\/li><li><strong>Cantonment Board: <\/strong>Jalandhar Cantonment Board was conferred the cleanest cantonment board in the country.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Swachh Survekshan 2021: <\/strong>The 2021 survey will focus on parameters pertaining to wastewater treatment, reuse along with faecal sludge. legacy of waste management, remediation of landfills among others.<\/li><li><strong>Prerak Daaur Samman<\/strong>: It is a new category of awards which will be announced as part of Swachh Survekshan 2021.<ul><li>The award has a total of five additional sub- categories -Divya (Platinum), Anupam (Gold), Ujjwal (Silver), Udit (Bronze), Aarohi (Aspiring) \u2013 with top three cities being recognized in each.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs has released the results of Swachh Survekshan 2020. Facts: Swachh Survekshan: It is an annual cleanliness survey of urban India conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs under the aegis of Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban(SBM-U).&nbsp; Objectives: a) To encourage large scale citizen participation and create&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/swachh-survekshan-2020-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swachh Survekshan 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5109],"class_list":["post-87356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-swachh-survekshan-2020","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700792340,"cached_date":1704632473},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}