Chennai: Three major cities – Chennai, Coimbatore, and Madurai – and 23 small cities feature Tamil Nadu in national ranking Swachh Survekshan 2021 for urban local agencies that have good sanitation and cleanliness levels.
Among the cities, Chennai, won a national rank 43, and has performed better than Coimbatore and Madurai within the country.
The perception of people about cleanliness management in the city seems to have increased rapidly in accordance with ranking because the city makes a sharp climb in rank compared to previous years.
By 2020, Chennai was ranked 45.
Coimbatore was ranked 46th attended by Madurai, which scored 47.
But non-metro cities such as Vijayawada, Pune, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Gwalior is one of the top cities.
Among the outskirts of the city, three local urban agencies – Avadi, Tambaram and Pallavaram – have succeeded in reaching a list of rankings for urban local agencies that have a population between one lakh and 10 lakh.
Like Chennai, the suburbs also show an increase.
For example, Avadi is now ranked 267 compared to 367 years ago.
During the same period, Tambaram scored 200 compared to 314 and Pallavaram in 233 compared to 283 in 2020.
Other urban local agencies that perform better are trichy, salmon and others.
Swachh Survekshan is a annual survey of cleanliness, cleanliness, and sanitation in cities throughout India launched as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aims to make India clean and free of defecation.
In 2021, the national level rank was carried out based on feedback provided online by residents.
Cities are classified based on populations – cities that have more than 10 lakh populations form big cities and those who have 1lakh up to 10 lakh populations are considered a small town.