Yamini C S | Edited by Sohini Goswami
Bengaluru was ranked forty third amongst 45 cities surveyed underneath the Swachh Survekshan 2022 record which got here out on Saturday, a steep downfall from the twenty eighth spot within the earlier yr when 48 cities have been in contrast. All these cities had a inhabitants of over 10 lakh.
Whereas Madhya Pradesh’s Indore was ranked first within the record for the sixth consecutive yr, Surat and Navi Mumbai stood second and third. Bengaluru was higher solely to Chennai and Madurai, which have been within the backside two. Amongst states, Madhya Pradesh was the cleanest within the nation.
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Mysore was within the eight spot on the record. Bengaluru’s civic administrative physique, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is claimed to have acquired greater than 5 lakh responses from residents for the survey.
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IAS officer Tushar Giri Nath, the chief commissioner of the BBMP, stated there was a dispute between the advisor appointed by the Centre and BBMP, and the authorities will look into this rating intimately.
In accordance with a The Occasions of India report, the BBMP particular commissioner for strong waste administration, Harish Kumar, stated it’s not truthful to check a mega metropolis like Bengaluru with some smaller cities within the class because the challenges they face are completely different.
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In the meantime, Karnataka’s Shivamogga was additionally recognised because the ‘quickest transferring metropolis’ within the nation.