Mysuru is the country’s clean-est city followed by UT of

Chandigarh and Tiruchirapalli while PM’s contituency, Vara-nasi, ranked among the dirti-

est, a govt survey of 73 cities, including 51 with million-plus population, has revealed. The

Capital’s NDMC area stood fourth in the list, whereas

Visakhapatnam, Surat, Rajkot and Gangtok were in fi fth, sixth, seventh and eighth

position respectively. The cur-rent survey ranked cities on availability of infrastructure and service levels related to

sanitation and treatment and disposal of municipal solid

waste. The fi rst survey, cover-ing 476 cities with a popula-

tion of 1 lakh and above, was conducted in 2014 before the launch of Swachh Bharat Ab-

hiyan. All cities that fi gured among the bottom 10 in 2014

improved their rankings ex-cept Meerut. Seven out of the

10 fi lthiest cities in the list are in UP, Jharkhand, Bihar

and Chhattisgarh. Here’s a look...

Quality Council Survey of 73 Indian cities

10 DIRTIEST CITIES 201673 Dhanbad

72 Asansol

71 Itanagar

70 Patna

69 Meerut

68 Raipur

67 Ghaziabad

66 Jamshedpur

65 Varanasi

64 Kalyan Dombivilli

10CLEANEST CITIES

1Mysuru

3Tiruchirappalli

5Visakhapatnam

6Surat

7Rajkot

8Gangtok

9Pimpri

Chindwad

2Chandigarh

4NDMC

TOP 10 GAINERS2014 2016

45 Allahabad 22

40 Nagpur 20

39 Visakhapatnam 5

34 Gwalior 30

32 Bhubaneswar 24

31 Hyderabad 19

29 Gurgaon 36

25 Rajkot 7

23 Vijayawada 23

23 Lucknow 28

TOP 10 LOSERS2014 2016

53 Jamshedpur 66

40 Kochi 55

35 Shillong 53

32 Chennai 36

31 Guwahati 50

28 Asansol 70

27 Bengaluru 38

27 Ranchi 62

25 Kalyan Dombivili 64

23 Nashik 31

Mysuru Cleanest, Varanasi Ranked Among Dirtiest Cities

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New Delhi: Mysuru, Chandigarh and Tiruchirapalli are the cleanest cities in India, a 73-city survey conducted to gauge the impact of Swachh Bharat Mission has found. Prime Minister’s Varanasi constituency, however, is one of the 10 dirtiest cities under his pet cleanliness initiative.

Swachh Survekshna, the survey con-ducted in 73 cities with 10 lakh and above population, has revealed that cities in south and east India have taken better to the Swachh Bharat Mission than cities in north and west India. The first survey had been conducted in 2014 before the Swachh Bharat Mission was launched in October 2014. Even then the 476-city survey had thrown up Mysuru as the winner. A com-parative analysis of the two successive surveys has shown that four cities have

improved their ranks to break into top 10 in 2016. These include Visakhapatnam, Surat, Rajkot and Gangtok. These cities have pushed down Navi Mumbai, Chennai, Pune and Nashik, which had finished in the top 10 in 2014.

Dhanbad has been found the dirtiest city by the survey. The 10 dirtiest cities include three cities from Uttar Pradesh – Varanasi, Ghaziabad and Meerut. Interestingly, all three are represented by BJP MPs in Parliament including PM,

minister Gen V K Singh and Rajendra A g r aw a l . K a lya n D o m b iv i l l i , Jamshedpur, Raipur, Patna, Itanagar and Asansol are the other cities which have finished at the bottom of the survey. Releasing the 73-city survey ranking, ur-ban development minister M Venkaiah Naidu shifted the blame completely on the local administration. When asked why PM’s constituency had not fared well, Naidu said, “The local administration can best reply to this. If it has fared poorly, then the administration should work to-wards improvement.”

While Mysuru has been the clear winner in both the years, Tiruchirappalli, ranked third in the 2016 survey, has achieved the best behavioural change as per the survey. The study was conducted by Quality Council of India, which deployed 25 teams involving a total of 100 trained surveyors for verification of documents, field obser-vation and obtaining citizen feedback.

VARANASI IN BOTTOM 10 Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu blames the local administration for poor state of the Uttar Pradesh city

IT’S ABOUT HABITS

Tiruchiraalli, which was ranked third, sees the

best behavioural change

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Headley’s Ex-wife, Cousin Respond to NIA Info Request

NEW DELHI: Faiza Outal-ha, the divorced wife of American-born Lashkar-e-Taiba terror-ist David Headley, has replied to all questions of National Investiga-tion Agency relating to her knowledge of the conspiracy behind 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Besides Outalha, the probe agency also re-corded the statement of a New York-based

cousin of Headley through a question-naire sent through the US Depart-ment of Jus-tice, official sources

said. The legal process of quizzing Outalha concluded only after the NIA sent a fresh re-quest in French to Mo-roccan authorities for recording her state-ment pertaining to her knowledge of her es-tranged husband’s as-sociation with LeT ter-ror group.—PTI

Faiza has replied to all questions of NIA relat-ing to her knowledge of 26/11 attack conspiracy

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Mysuru Retains Clean City Status Yet Again Samanwaya.Rautray

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New Delhi: The Arunachal Congress on Monday com-plained to the Supreme Court that a move was afoot to with-draw the President’s Rule in the state and allow a group led by dis-sident Congress MLA Kalikho Pul to stake claim to form a gov-ernment along with the Oppo-sition BJP and sought court in-tervention to stall any such move but got no relief for now.

Lead counsel for the Congress, senior advocate Fali S Nariman, accused the governor of trying to overreach the Constitution bench, which is hearing a clutch of petitions on the validity of 14

rebel MLAs’ disqualification, by recommending that President’s Rule be withdrawn in the state to allow another government to

take over.“We have our

own apprehen-sion, they are trying to form a new govern-ment,” he told the bench in the morning but the court said it wouldn’t deal

with any such oral prayer. Ousted Speaker Nabam Rebia

filed an application soon after drawing the court’s attention to the fast-moving political devel-opments in the state.

“They have already set up a

mandapam and all arrange-ments have been made to swear in a new chief minister,” Nariman told the bench. “This is a serious breach…,” Nariman said.

Rebia dubbed any move by the Governor to install Pul as CM as “a blatant attempt to overreach this court thereby making a mockery of not only the demo-cratic principles but also the ju-dicial process. That such ac-tions of the respondent (governor) and Union Governm-ent would only corroborate the contention… that all what has been done till now, and which is assailed in the proceedings, has been done with the sole objec-tive of toppling a democratical-ly-elected government….”

Rebels have set up a man-dapam and all arrange-ments have been made to swear in a new CM, says Sibal

No Supreme Court Relief for Arunachal CongressCONG SAYS Block govt activities till disqualification petitions

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