Dirtiest Cities In India

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India, but a machine unveiled on World Toilet Day today could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of people, especially below poverty line, are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from underground pipes.

Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air. Smog kills more than one million Indians every year and Delhi has the worst air of any major city on the planet, the World Health Organization says. Every November, hospi...

Flies throng over piles of faeces, drains overflow with sewage and the foul smell in the air is inescapable. This is Awas Vikas, one of the most exclusive parts of Gonda, an Uttar Pradesh city that has the ignominy of being branded the dirtiest in India.

After the Swachh Bharat survey revealed that Indias most populous state Uttar Pradesh is also the filthiest, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided to take the matter into his own hands, literally. Armed with a broom, the chief minister headed to a congested pocket of Lucknow and swept the streets along with his ministers.

Indore in Madhya Pradesh is India's cleanest city and Gonda in Uttar Pradesh is the dirtiest, the government said today as it revealed the "Swachh Survekshan" survey scoring cities on various counts related to cleanliness and sanitation. Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the rankings are on the basis of feedback taken from people in 434 cities. St...

Mysore, the city of gardens in Karnataka, built by kings, is the cleanest city in India. Chandigarh, designed by French architect Le Corbusier, is the second among 73 cities ranked on the basis of how clean they are and whether they have lived up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat' or Clean India dream.

Why is it that South Indians manage to keep their cities and places of worship cleaner than we do?

India's commercial capital, Mumbai, has been named among the world's 'dirtiest' cities, ranking last in the 'cleanest streets' category, a global survey of 40 key tourist cities has found.

Hundreds of "manual scavengers" die each year cleaning out sewers in cities across India, but a machine unveiled on World Toilet Day today could help to end that tragic record. Thousands of people, especially below poverty line, are employed in one of the world's dirtiest jobs unclogging human waste from underground pipes.

Yogesh Kumar wheezes after life-saving surgery to remove a diseased lung, but his surgeons wonder how long he can last outside hospital breathing some of the world's dirtiest air. Smog kills more than one million Indians every year and Delhi has the worst air of any major city on the planet, the World Health Organization says. Every November, hospi...

Flies throng over piles of faeces, drains overflow with sewage and the foul smell in the air is inescapable. This is Awas Vikas, one of the most exclusive parts of Gonda, an Uttar Pradesh city that has the ignominy of being branded the dirtiest in India.

After the Swachh Bharat survey revealed that Indias most populous state Uttar Pradesh is also the filthiest, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided to take the matter into his own hands, literally. Armed with a broom, the chief minister headed to a congested pocket of Lucknow and swept the streets along with his ministers.

Indore in Madhya Pradesh is India's cleanest city and Gonda in Uttar Pradesh is the dirtiest, the government said today as it revealed the "Swachh Survekshan" survey scoring cities on various counts related to cleanliness and sanitation. Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu said the rankings are on the basis of feedback taken from people in 434 cities. St...

Mysore, the city of gardens in Karnataka, built by kings, is the cleanest city in India. Chandigarh, designed by French architect Le Corbusier, is the second among 73 cities ranked on the basis of how clean they are and whether they have lived up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat' or Clean India dream.

Why is it that South Indians manage to keep their cities and places of worship cleaner than we do?

India's commercial capital, Mumbai, has been named among the world's 'dirtiest' cities, ranking last in the 'cleanest streets' category, a global survey of 40 key tourist cities has found.