President Droupadi Murmu will confer Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26 at a ceremony in New Delhi today. These awards honour India’s cleanest cities, celebrating their outstanding contributions to Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal, and Minister of State of the Ministry, Tokhan Sahu will be present on the occasion.
The Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 awards serve as a celebration of the collective achievements of cities and States and a renewed commitment to sustain on-ground achievements. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs informed that the 10th edition of the Swachh Survekshan on the theme of ‘Swachhata Ki Nayi Pehel- Badhayein Haath, Karein Safai Saath’ has been completed. It said that Swachh Survekshan has grown from 73 Urban Local Bodies in 2016 to more than four thousand cities in its latest edition.
Swachh Survekshan 2025-26 introduced several key enhancements, including greater emphasis on citizen feedback, expanded coverage of Urban River Fronts, and focused indicators on prevention of open defecation and open urination and behaviour change initiatives in schools.
As part of the 10th edition of Swachh Survekshan, Urban Local Bodies were evaluated across 43 indicators spanning 10 key assessment areas. These include segregation, collection and transportation of waste, solid waste management, access to sanitation, overall welfare of sanitation workers and citizen feedback and grievance redressal.
