Swachh Survekshan: Kanpur ranks 13, gets Water Plus cert
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In another achievemnt, the city grabbed the third position among 88 cities under the Ganga Town special category.
Acording to the govt release on Thursday, Kanpur has also been awarded the Water Plus certificate in the ODF category and fifth place in Garbage Free City category in the survey.
According to the data collected under the Cleanliness Survey-2024-25, the door-to-door collection was 96 per cent, sorting of garbage 79 per cent, 100 per cent marks in garbage generation and its processing and 95 percent points in development of the dumping site.
The city also earned 100 per cent points in cleaning of residential, market areas and water corporations and secured 87 per cent marks in cleaning public urinls. Municipal commissioner Sudhir Kumar commented that Kanpur municipal corporation had pledged for continuous development in cleanliness of the city with the target of 'Healthy Kanpur and Clean Kanpur.' All the efforts will be focussed on achieving this target and further improvement in the cleanliness, he added.
Mayor Pramila Pandey expressed happiness over the city's ranking and said that more efforts were needed to achieve the top spot in the Swachh Survekshan. The KMC would make serious efforts in this direction, she added.
In 3 to 10 lakhs City category Mirabhayadar, Bilaspur and Jamshedput ranked first, second and third place respectively.
Uttar Pradesh's cities performed impressively in the overall Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 rankings. Among the Million Plus Cities category, Lucknow Municipal Corporation secured the third place nationally with a score of 12,001. Agra stood at 10th place with 11,532 points, Ghaziabad at 11th slot with 11,514 points and Prayagraj at 12th with a commendable total score of 11,292.
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