In fact, BBMP's citizen feedback score (619 out of 1,400) is less than the national average, indicating citizens' discontent with the city'...

The statistics may appear to be picture perfect but the situation on the ground turned out to be somewhat different.

The only improvement over 2017 appears to be in the creation of a data bank on solid waste management.

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) official said, "We wanted to use the public-private-partnership model for the maintenance, so ...

The chief minister also hit out at the previous dispensation for "keeping their eyes closed in the face of rampant loot of public money".

"I can say with confidence that everyone will be safe in the state without any discrimination and rule of law is the priority of the state ...

Bengaluru failure to declare itself 'open-defecation free' was another reason for its poor performance in the rankings.

NDMC scored 819.95, 426.88 and 461.13 under municipal documentation, direct observation and citizen engagement, respectively.

Gujarat has the maximum of 12 cities among the top 50 clean cities, closely followed by Madhya Pradesh with 11 and Andhra Pradesh with eigh...

According to the 'Swachh Survekshan-2017' announced Naidu today, Indore became the cleanest city in India, while Bhopal bagged the second p...

"#SwachhSurvekshan2017 offers an extensive picture on where our cities stand on cleanliness and the roadmap ahead," Modi said in a tweet.

The Urban Development Ministry had commissioned the survey for 500 cities and towns with population of 1 lakh and above in January and Febr...

Out of 18 Lakh people surveyed across 500 cities, 80% satisfied with the door-to-door garbage collection.

One of the surveying teams allegedly sought bribe from municipal authorities of Aurangabad for assigning better ranking, prompting QCI to t...

Lack of public dustbins was one of the reasons why the city ended up 38th among 73 cities for cleanliness survey.

The youths will be engaged to spread the message of “Asli Tarakki” suggesting that having and using toilet should be a major priority.

The 500 cities to be ranked in this round of the survey account for about 70 per cent of the urban population in the country.