Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 Awards: President Murmu to Honour Cities on 11 Nov
Over 4,751 cities were scored on 43 indicators; the awards on 11 November will show which of them moved up the cleanliness ranking.
Image: Wikipedia (representational image of Indore)
President Droupadi Murmu will confer the Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on 11 November, the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said in a release. Union Minister Manohar Lal and Minister of State Tokhan Sahu will be present. This is the 10th edition of the annual urban cleanliness survey, which covered more than 4,751 cities this year, according to the ministry.
What Cities Were Scored On
Urban local bodies were assessed on 43 indicators across 10 areas. The ministry says this edition gives more weight to citizen feedback and adds scoring for riverfronts, coastlines and water bodies, cleanliness at tourist and heritage sites, prevention of open defecation and urination, and behaviour-change work in schools. More than 3,000 trained assessors took part, with GPS-enabled monitoring in real time, according to reports on the release.
Mentor Cities and the Gains Claimed
The ministry also points to the Swachh Shehar Jodi programme, launched on 27 September 2025, which pairs 70 mentor cities with 191 mentee cities across 33 states and Union Territories. The figures reported from the ministry’s release show the mentee cities improving since Swachh Survekshan 2024: visible cleanliness from 48 per cent to 70 per cent, door-to-door waste collection from 52 per cent to 74 per cent, and source segregation of waste from 16 per cent to 30 per cent. These are the ministry’s own numbers; the survey results will be public only after the ceremony.
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Indore Held the Top Spot Last Time
At the previous edition in July 2025, Indore was named the cleanest city for the eighth year in a row. Surat was second and Navi Mumbai third in the Super Swachh League, and Ahmedabad was named the cleanest city among those with more than 10 lakh people, according to ANI reporting carried by ThePrint. Seventy-eight awards were presented that year.
Rankings Come on 11 November
The category-wise winners, the full list of awardees and this year’s top city will be announced at the ceremony. The ministry has not said whether the results will be released online on the same day. The survey’s theme this year is “Swachhata Ki Nayi Pehel – Badhayein Haath, Karein Safai Saath”.
Source: PIB release, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Also based on reporting by ANI, The News Mill and ThePrint.
Image: Wikipedia (representational image of Indore).
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