Dirty Delhi ranks in bottom 100 of India's clean city list

NEW DELHI: It may be the nation's capital but Delhi is so filthy that it ranks among the bottom 100 in a list of 476 municipal areas of India assessed for cleanliness. It stands at a lowly 379. But its elite zone, administered by the New Delhi Municipal Corporation, ranks a high 16th on the list.

Not just Delhi, most parts of north India have done badly in the survey conducted by the ministry of urban development as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign. In the survey that assessed munici .. 

Mysore is India's cleanest municipal area and Damoh in Madhya Pradesh the dirtiest. Bengaluru tops state capitals in the list and Patna stands last.

Here is a stunner for Delhi loyalists who never tire of comparing their city's clean and green environs to Mumbai's chaos -- Greater Mumbai actually stands way above the capital, 147th in the list, and Navi Mumbai ranks an impressive No 3.

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