How Navi Mumbai dethroned Indore after 8 years to become India’s cleanest city: Here’s what changed and full rankings
Navi Mumbai has dethroned Indore after eight consecutive years to become India's cleanest city in Swachh Survekshan 2025-26. Surat and Vijayawada secured the second and third positions. Indore moved to the Mentor City category, finishing second with Depalpur.
Indore relinquished its title as India's cleanest city after eight years, ceding the top spot to Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra's 2025-26 Swachh Survekshan Awards. The prestigious award, conferred by President Droupadi Murmu, recognized Navi Mumbai's superior performance in cleanliness, sanitation and waste management. Surat and Vijayawada of Gujarat followed in second and third place, respectively.
The rigorous 10th edition of the annual survey evaluated cleanliness, sanitation and waste management across 4,700 urban local bodies, with Navi Mumbai's top ranking reflecting strong progress in city management practices. Indore's absence from the top ranks does not suggest a decline in its cleanliness performance, as the city competed in a separate mentorship category, where it claimed second place alongside its partner town Depalpur.
In addition to the overall rankings, the survey highlighted improvements in various categories. Among cities with populations over 10 lakh, Greater Visakhapatnam topped the list, followed by Jabalpur and Lucknow. Ujjain led the pack for towns with populations between 3 lakh and 10 lakh, while Chandigarh and Guntur secured second and third positions, respectively.
Dewas, a city in Madhya Pradesh, emerged as the cleanest among those with populations between 20,000 and 50,000, while Vita in Maharashtra and Aska in Odisha took the top spots in their respective categories.
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