Tamil Nadu's Trichy ranks 2nd in Swachh Bharat

Mysore topped the list with Chennai coming at 61

Tamil Nadu’s Thiruchirapalli or Trichy is ranked second in the Swachh Bharat Ranking of 476 cities after Karnataka’s Mysore which scored the first rank, according to union ministry of urban development.
 
The State capital Chennai, which is going to host its first Global Investors Meet (GIM), was ranked at 61st, while temple town of Madurai ranked 20
th.
 
The top 10 ranked are  Mysore, Thiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), Navi Mumbai, Kochi (Kerala), Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru from Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Halisahar (West Bengal) and Gangtok (Sikkim) in that order, as per the statement issued by the union ministry of urban development.

All the 476 Class-1 cities in 31 States and Union Territories, each with a population of above one lakh were surveyed for assessing  total sanitation practices covering a set of parameters including the extent of open defecation, solid waste management, septage management, waste water treatment, drinking water quality, surface water quality of water bodies and mortality due to water born diseases and others.
 

The survey was conducted in 2014-15 commissioned by the Ministry of Urban Development as required under the National Sanitation Policy of 2008.
 
Since the Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented in urban areas with focus on construction of individual household, community and public toilets to eradicate open defecation and ensure door-to-door collection and disposal of municipal solid waste, all the 476 Class-1 cities have been ranked based on the data pertaining to these elements from out of the date generated in the survey.
 

This helps in assessing the present situation in these cities so that they can undertake necessary interventions to meet Swachh Bharat Mission targets in urban areas.?