Swachh Bharat Award 2020 – The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is the government of India’s most important cleanliness campaign. Shri Narendra Modi led a cleanliness pledge signed by over thirty lakh government employees from throughout the country at India Gate. He also started a walkathon on Rajpath, shocking everyone by joining in for more than a few steps and marching alongside the participants for quite some distance.
The Swachh Bharat Awards 2020: overview
The Swachh Bharat Awards is an initiative under this swachh bharat campaign to encourage the efforts of cleanliness in the country. The awards have three categories- Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya, Gandagi Mukth Bharat and Samudayik Shouchalaya Abhiyan.
The Swachh Bharat Award is an initiative to recognize the best states / UTs, boroughs, neighborhoods, general practitioners, and others in a variety of cleaning categories.
The awards ceremony is organized yearly in recognition of the good work done for cleanliness by the state cities and territories of the Union through various initiatives of the Swachh Bharat (Urban) Mission. The awards are generally presented by the president or vice president or Union Ministers.
In the third edition, the awards were presented by the Vice President of India, Mr. Venkaya Naidu. The second presentation of the awards was equally successful.
Swachh Bharat Award 2020
The best Swachh Bharat Award 2020 were presented in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Punjab and other states. In addition, various prizes were awarded in several categories. The Swachh Bharat Award are presented annually to Panchayat states, districts, neighborhoods and villages in the categories of drinking water and cleanliness.
On October 2, Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat presented the 2020 Swachh Bharat Award to states, districts, neighborhoods and village panchayats.
In the Swachh Sundar Samudayik Shouchalaya category, Gujarat took first place at the state level and Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu received the District Level Cleaning Award. Andhra Pradesh came second in the Swachh Sundar Shauchalaya National Award category. Among the states, Chhattisgarh and Chandigarh won the prize for the best states and union territories in the context of the Challenge.
Cleanest state in the category “Over 100 City Local Governments”
At the annual Swachh Bharat Award 2020 ceremony, Indore stood out as the cleanest city in the country, and Chhattisgarh was honored as India’s cleanest state this year. For the fifth year in a row, Indore was awarded the title of the cleanest city in India by Swachh Survekshan, while Surat and Vijayawada were ranked second and third respectively in the population category with a population of more than 1 lakh.
For the third year in a row, Chhattisgarh was named the cleanest state in the category “Over 100 City Local Governments” in the government awards, and Jharkhand received the cleanest state award in the category “Less than 100 ULB” for the second time. category. In terms of the area, Surat was rated as the cleanest area, followed by Indore and New Delhi.
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