Those who believe India is not a clean country, there are various cities in the country that are more clean than a foreign country is. Being a part of PM’s Swachh Bharat campaign (2014–2015), Indian cities were ranked on the basis of their cleanliness factor.Scroll on to check out the cleanest cities in India:
#1 Mysore
Mysore, now called as Mysuru stands is at position number one of cleanest city in India. Mysuru is the 3rd largest city in the country for population count in Karnataka that served as the capital city to Kingdom of Mysore for around six centuries from 1399 – 1947.
State/Territory : Karnataka
Rating Points (Out Of 20) : 18.50
#2 Tiruchirappalli
Second in the list is Tiruchirappalli, in English known as Trichinopoly, a.k.a. Tiruchi or Trichy located in Tamil Nadu. Situated 322 kilometres south of Chennai.
State/Territory : Tamil Nadu
Rating Points (Out Of 20) : 14.25
#3 Navi Mumbai
Navi Mumbai, is at 3rd position a planned township of Mumbai on the west coast of Maharashtra.
State/Territory : Maharashtra
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 14.18
#4 Kochi
Number four is Kochi, and also popular with the name Cochin is a huge port city on the south-west coast of India. Kochi is known to be the 2nd largest city in India, after Mumbai, on the western coast.
State/Territory : Kerala
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 14.07
#5 Hassan
Hassan is a city that holds position number 5 in the list of cleanest cities in the country. Beautiful indeed, isn’t it?
State/Territory : Karnataka
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 13.58
#6 Mandya
Mandya, stands at sixth position in the state of Karnataka. Popular as the land of rice and sugar, agriculture district formed in 1939. City is approx. 100 km from Bangalore and 40km from Mysore city.
State/Territory : Karnataka
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 13.52
#7 Bengaluru
Bangalore or Bengaluru, capital of Karnataka ranks at position number seven. City’s population is around 10.8 million.
State/Territory : Karnataka
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 13.27
#8 Thiruvananthapuram
Number eight is Thiruvananthapuram, known as Trivandrum, is the capital city of Kerala. Mahatma Gandhi referred the city as “Evergreen city of India”.
State/Territory : Kerala
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 12.98
#9 Halisahar
Halisahar, commonly known as Kumarhatta, holds position 9.
State/Territory : West Bengal
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 12.75
#10 Gangtok
Last but not the least is Gangtok is a municipality, the largest town of Sikkim – the north-east of India.
State/Territory : Sikkim
Rating Points (Out Of 20): 12.68
