Lucknow: Lucknow won awards for ‘the best state capital in citizen feedback’.
Overall, it secured 12th place and maintained the previous year to become the top city in the 10 lakh population and the above categories.
Among the other seven cities in Top 30 are Ghaziabad (18), Kanpur (21), Agra (24), Prasagraj (26), Meerut (27) and Varanasi (30.
Three of these – Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Meerut – have improved Their ranked while the other three – Varanasi, Prasagraj and Agra slightly slipped, but have maintained their position over the last 30 years, six cities are above the top 30.
This year, the number has increased to seven.
Minister of Development Urban Tandon and Additional Secretary Secretary, Development of Urban, Rajnish Dubey, has congratulated the officials and representatives of the award-winning city bodies for their good work.
While the ‘citizen feedback’ including response and public satisfaction, ‘service level progress’ which includes the use of technology in providing services to provide services People, water conservation and waste processing and ‘certification’ which are considered free of defecation and garbage collection.
Direct observation parameters Including third-party inspections combined with the progress of this year’s service level.
Among other award-winning cities, Meerut won the ‘Fastest Mover City’ award in the city category with a population of 10 lakh to 40 lakh, while Ghaziabad won the ‘best city in innovation and best practices in the same category.
In the city category with 3 lakh to 10 Lakh populations, Noida won the ‘cleanest Indian Medium City award while in the category of more than 1 Lakh population, Hapur won the maximum’ Citizens’ participation participation participation.
Patiali won the ‘best city award in the maximum’ participation ‘in the city category with a population of less than 1 lakh.
Hasanpur won the ‘fastest driving city’ in the 50,000 category to 1 Lakh population while Awagarh and Gajraula won the ‘City In Citizens’ feedback award in their respective categories.
Meerut Cantonment Bagges ‘Indian Cantonment Award’ India in category 1 Lakh Population While Varanasi Cantonment won the same award in the category of more than 1 lakh population.
In the category of ‘Trash Free City’, five cities from up -Lucknow, Ghaziabad, Noida, Aligarh and Jhansi – ranked star.
Even though Lucknow remained ranked 12th, the score increased to 4,586 from 4,102 years ago.
Kanpur also increased its score from 3,783 to 3847 and jumped to 21 from 25 years ago.
Ghaziabad increased its ranking with notches from 19 years ago to 18 this time even when the overall score witnessed a decline from 4,283 to 4,220.
Ranking released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (Mohua) on Saturday is based on a cleanliness survey conducted throughout the country after separating cities based on their population.
Overall, 4,320 urban local agencies, including cities, cities, cities and Cantonese, in various categories are assessed.
From them, the two main categories were 372 cities / cities with a population between 1-10 lakh, and 48 major cities with 10 lakh or the population above.
Swayachh Bharat 2020 survey has four parameters – Citizen feedback (1,500 marks), certification (1,500 marks), direct observation (1,500) and service level progress (1,500).
However, this year, the assessment was carried out on three scales – Citizen feedback (1,800 mark), service level progress (2,400 marks) and certification (1,800 marks).
The total value for contested is 6,000.
Meerut is a star player, recording a big leap of 14 steps – from 41st place last year to 27 this time – with an aggregate score of 3,598, a substantial increase compared to last year.
On the other hand, the largest decline in the city above was recorded by Agra, which slipped from 16th year ago to 24 years.
Agra’s clean score also plunged 3,715 from 4,391 years ago.
Prasagraj also lost six places from ranking 20 years ago until 26 this time.
The clean score in 2020 was 4,141, which fell to 3,613 this year.
Varanasi also slipped three steps from the 27th place last year up to 30 times, with a score fell to 3,532 of 3,684 years ago.