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New Delhi slips on Swachh Bharat test

While Indore and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh topped the list as the cleanest cities, Delhi, under the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), slipped to the seventh position. It came three steps down from 2016.

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The capital lags behind Tier -II cities in basic civic amenities such as sanitation and cleanliness. The posh Lutyens' area, known for housing the high and mighty, has failed the Swachh Bharat test. According to the 2017 Swachh Survekhan Survey released by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) on Thursday, New Delhi faces sewage problems and lacks enough public toilets. The survey was held across 434 cities.

While Indore and Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh topped the list as the cleanest cities, Delhi, under the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), slipped to the seventh position. It came three steps down from 2016.

The other three municipal corporations of Delhi --- South, North and East --- feature much below on the list at 202, 279 and 196, respectively. This is way behind other Tier-II cities like Vishakhaptnam, Surat, Mysuru, Chandigarh and Vadodra.

The cities have been marked out of a maximum score of 2,000 on parameters including waste collection, sweeping and transportation (40%), Municipal Solid Waste - processing and disposal (30%), Open defecation/toilets (20%), information and education (5%), capacity building -- Swachh Bharat Mission (5%).
 

"NDMC secured 1,707.96 marks. The Council is stepping up efforts to bring up the ranking to first by next year," said an NDMC official. The strategy for the next year is to focus on 100 per cent segregation of waste and making five colonies 'zero waste colonies', he added.

While the civic body claimed itself to be 'open defecation-free' city, sites of people urinating along railway tracks in the area are not rare. "We have already constructed 330 public toilets, and 63 more are under construction, which will be completed by September 2017," the official said.

Uttar Pradesh counted for at least 50 cities in the bottom of the list. Gonda in UP was the 'dirtiest' city and Bhusawal in Maharashtra the second-last.

Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh fared the best with the maximum number of clean cities. While Gujarat had around 12 of the 50 top clean cities, MP and Andhra Pradesh had 11 and eight, respectively.

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