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Swachh Survekshan 2024-25
Context
The 9th edition of Swachh Survekshan, conducted under the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban, was recently released, expanding its scope to over 4,500 cities and revising evaluation categories to better reflect urban sanitation performance.
About Swachh Survekshan and SBM (Urban):
- Swachh Survekshan is an annual cleanliness survey conducted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).
- Initiated in 2016, it started with fewer than 100 cities and has now scaled up to assess over 4,500 urban local bodies (ULBs).
- The 2024-25 edition introduced the Super Swachh League, dividing cities into five population categories for fairer competition.
Evaluation Parameters and Innovations:
- The survey evaluates cities on 10 key parameters, including waste segregation, scientific processing of waste, sanitation worker welfare, and citizen feedback.
- It incorporates third-party verification and inputs from over 140 million residents, ensuring robustness and transparency.
- Best practices include Indore’s six-way waste segregation, Surat’s sewage reuse, and Agra’s bioremediation of legacy dumpsites.
Themes and Policy Implications:
- The 2025 theme of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (RRR)’ builds upon the previous year's ‘Waste to Wealth’, aiming to create green jobs, micro-enterprises, and boost the circular economy.
- Despite infrastructure growth, behavioural transformation in citizen participation and ULB enforcement remains a key challenge.
- Tourism-linked cities were specially assessed, aligning sanitation with broader economic potential and urban aesthetics.
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