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ITANAGAR, Aug 20: Itanagar, the state capital of Arunachal came at seventh place in the top 10 dirtiest cities of the country as the Swachh Survekshan 2020 awards were announced today. Two other cities from the Northeast region— Shillong the capital of Meghalaya and Dimapur in Nagaland also came at sixth and eighth place respectively.
Indore retained the tag of India's cleanest city for the fourth year in a row. Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri announced the Swachh Survekshan 2020 result at the Award Ceremony ‘Swachh Mahotsav’ in the national capital being organised by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUHA).
This is the fifth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of the country. A total of 129 awards will be handed out to the top-performing cities and states. Swachh Survekshan was started by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016. While Mysuru won the award for the cleanest city of India in 2016, Indore retained the top spot for three consecutive years (2017, 2018 and 2019).
The survey focused on collection of segregated waste and maintenance till processing site, treatment and reuse of wastewater, curtailing solid waste-based air pollution, among other factors.

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