Cleanest cities in India

The Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India, annually publish National City Rating under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan scheme. The rating includes around 500 cities, covering 72 percent of the urban population in India.

Until 2017, India was divided into five zones for the purpose of this survey and each city was scored on 19 indicators. The cities were classified into four colours: green, blue, black, and red, green being the cleanest city, and red the most polluted. None of the cities was rated as green—the best category in the exercise. However, during the 2017-18 senses survey, the parameters of assessment were modified, and cities were categorised, based on population, into metropolis, large, medium, and small cities, and assessment took place according to this categorisation.

The latest ranking of 2018 by Swachh Bharat Abhiyan announced Indore as the cleanest cities in India for a second time.

Summary

The Ministry of Urban Development ranks cities based on cleanliness index. This list summarises the cities topping those lists annually.

Year	First			Runner up
	City		State	City	State
2018	Metropolis	Indore	Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh
	Large city	Vijayawada	Andhra Pradesh
	Medium city	Mysore	Karnataka
	Small city	New Delhi (Municipal Council)	Delhi
2017	Indore		Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh
2016	Mysore		Karnataka	Chandigarh	Chandigarh Territory
2015				Tiruchirapalli	Tamil Nadu
2010	Chandigarh		Union Territory of Chandigarh	Mysore	Karnataka