Shri Hardeep Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for Housing & Urban Affairshas stated that while Swachh Survekshan 2019 will focus on sustainability and encourage large scale citizen participation and ensure progress towards garbage free and open defecation free cities, the Ease of Living Index will encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to Urban planning &Management. Sh. Puri launched the fourth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of urban India – Swachh Survekshan 2019, here today. The event also saw the launch of the SBM ODF+ and SBM ODF++ Protocols, web-based citizen engagement platform Swachh Manch, the Ease of Living Index and Ease of Living Index dashboard. Sh Durga Shanker Mishra,Secretary, MoHUA and senior officers of the ministry were also present during the occasion.

Swachh Survekshan 2019

Swachh Survekshan 2019 will be conducted across all cities and towns across the country between 4th – 31st January 2019. The distinctive features of the survey are  geared towards encouraging large scale citizen participation, ensuring sustainability of initiatives taken towards garbage free and open defecation free cities, providing credible outcomes which would be validated by third party certification, institutionalizing existing systems through online processes and creating awareness amongst all sections of society about the importance of working together towards making towns and cities a better place to live in. Further, this year’s Swachh Survekshan will focus separately on sanitation and garbage-free certifications by independent third party, while parallelly accelerating citizens’ engagement in the Mission. Additionally, the survey also intends to foster a spirit of healthy competition among towns and cities to improve their service delivery to citizens, towards creating cleaner cities.

 

The key highlights of Swachh Survekshan 2019 are as follows:

1. Fully digitized survey through online MIS

 

2. The survey indicators/questionnaire will carry a total of 5000 marks as compared to 4000 marks in Swachh Survekshan 2018.

 

3. Data will be collected from 4 broad sources – ‘Service Level Progress’, Direct Observation, Citizens Feedback and Certification – as shown below.

 

 

 

4. Revised weightage for the components under ‘Service Level Progress’, adding a new component ‘By-Laws’ (refer diagram below).

 

 

5. Certification (Star Rating of Garbage Free Cities and Open Defecation Free Protocols)

MoHUA has introduced an important component of ‘Certification’ of the city on two different aspects:

1. Star Rating of Garbage Free Cities: The cities would be evaluated on the basis of the star rating achieved by them as per the protocol released by MoHUA. The Star Rating protocol is based on 12 parameters and follows a SMART framework – Single metric, Measurable, Achievable, Rigorous verification mechanism and Targeted towards outcomes – and has been devised in a holistic manner including components such as cleanliness of drains & water bodies, plastic waste management, managing construction & demolition waste, etc. which are critical drivers for achieving garbage free cities. In order to give added impetus to cities to accelerate their journey towards a garbage-free status, the Swachh Survekshan 2019 has allocated 20% weightage of marks to the star rating certifications.

 

2. Open Defecation Free Protocols:A 5% weightage has been allotted in the Swachh Survekshan to ODF certifications.

6. Direct Observation (On-field independent observation and collection of data):   The collection of data from Direct Observation shall be based on physical observation of the survey agency.
7. Citizen Feedback will be collected from Citizens directly (face to face), through Outbound Calls, 1969, Swachhata App/Swachh Manch and through Swachh Survekshan-2019 portal.  In addition to collecting feedbacks, performance of SwachhataApp will also be evaluated under ‘Citizens Feedback’.

 

SBM ODF+ & ODF++ Protocols

 

Over the last four years, there has been a paradigm shift in the way urban sanitation is being monitored under the Mission. Accordingly, MoHUA is now monitoring outcomes (number of ODF wards and cities), rather than outputs (numbers of toilets built). The ODF protocol is being rigorously followed for declaring and certifying ODF status of cities. With 18 states / UTs and 3,223 cities declared ODF, it is time to step up the rigour of the process by putting in place additional parameters to ensure the sustainability and long term impact of the ODF status.

The SBM ODF+ and SBM ODF++ protocols include sustainability aspects including improved access to individual toilets, community and public toilet maintenance, functionality and liquid waste / fecal sludge and septage management (FSSM). While the focus of SBM ODF+ protocol is on sustaining toilet usage by ensuring their functionality, cleanliness and maintenance, the SBM ODF++ protocol focuses on achieving sanitation sustainability by addressing complete sanitation value chain, including safe and complete fecal sludge management. It is expected that this will go a long way in strengthening the overall ODF mandate of the Swachh Bharat Mission and ensure that the long-term impact of ODF is truly achieved.

Swachh Manch (http://www.swachhmanch.in/)

 

            The web-based platform will allow stakeholders to create/invite/participate in volunteering opportunities around neighborhoods. Swachh Manch will enable uploads of pictorial evidence of citizens and organizations participating in the initiatives, as well as record the number of hours volunteered, as acknowledgement of citizens’/organisations’ efforts and contributions to the cause of ‘swachhata’.

            This would not only encourage other fellow citizens and stakeholders to do their bit for the cause of ‘swachhata’ but also contribute to accelerating the pace of achievement of our collective dream of a ‘Swachh Bharat’. The Swachh Manch will also be integrated with the existing Swachhata App to act as a citizens’ grievance redressal platform. In the Swachh Survekshan too, data uploaded on the Swachh Manch will be one of the means of verifications for relevant indicators pertaining to IEC and citizen engagement.

            Sh. Puri said that over the next four months, MoHUA will conduct regional workshops to ensure that cities are well versed with the survey parameters, and the roles and responsibilities of every municipal staff, so that they are fully prepared to take the survey. The Ministry will also be conducting 80 capacity building workshops across the country on all components of SBM.   Parallelly, through the Bureau of Outreach and Communications (BoC), the Ministry will be conducting nearly 1000 on-ground citizen engagement events across 225 cities in the country, to give a massive thrust and impetus to citizen outreach efforts.

 

EASE OF LIVING INDEX

                The Ease of Living Index is an initiative of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) to help cities assess their liveability vis-à-vis global and national benchmarks and encourage cities to move towards an ‘outcome-based’ approach to urban planning and management. It was decided in June 2017 to rank cities based on the liveability parameters. The implementation of the assessment commenced formally on 19 January, 2018 covering 111 cities.(Annexure I)

            Ease of Living framework comprises four pillars namely Institutional, Social, Economic and Physical which are further broken down into 15 categories and 78 indicators.

 

Evaluation of cities has been done on a 100-point scale across the 78 indicators with the institutional and social pillars carrying 25 points each, 5 points for the pillar on economic and 45 points for the physical pillar. The whole exercise is being carried out on a mass scale and began with a National Orientation Workshop to orient city officials on assessment framework. It was followed by 33 state level workshops spread across all 36 states and Union Territories.

A data entry portal and a monitoring dashboard for real time update on progress was established. The cities submitted data on more than 50000 points. Secondary audit of 10,000 documents, physical audit of 14,000 units and survey of more than 60,000 citizens have been completed which led to finalization of ease of living index.

 

The Ease of Living assessment standards are closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will provide a strong impetus to India’s effort for systematic tracking progress of SDGs in the urban areas. Of the 17 SDG goals, 8 goals are directly linked to India’s ease of living assessment framework with SDG 11 that is aimed at making our cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable being measured through a set of 30 indicators.

 

 Apart from presenting the overall national ranking of 111 cities, the dashboard will present ranking of the cities across pillars, category, geographical zone and population classifications (four classifications of cities based on population include: Classification 1- Cities with population of 4 million and above; Classification 2: Cities with population greater than1 million but less than 4 million; Classification 3: Cities with population greater 0.5 million but less than 1 million; and Classification 4: Cities with population less than 0.5 million). The dashboard will also have a comparison feature that will allow users to analyse the performance across cities on various liveability parameters. Ease of Living Index dashboard is available at https://smartnet.niua.org/.

 

Ranking: Ease of Living Index

Pillar Wise: Top ten cities

Institutional	Social	Economic	Physical
Navi Mumbai	Tirupati	Chandigarh	Greater Mumbai
Tirupati	Tiruchirappalli	Ajmer	Pune
Karim Nagar	Navi Mumbai	Kota	Thane
Hyderabad	Chandigarh	Indore	Chandigarh
Bilaspur	Pune	Tiruppur	Raipur
Kochi	Greater Mumbai	Itanagar	Tirupati
Ahmedabad	Amravati	Pune	Navi Mumbai
Pune	Vijayawada	Ludhiana	Bhopal
Vijayawada	Indore	Thane	Bilaspur
Visakhapatnam	Vasai Virar	Vijayawada	Visakhapatnam

 

City Population Typology wise : Top three cities

Population ≥ 4 million	Population ≥ 1 million < 4 million	Population ≥ 0.5 million < 1 million	Population les than 0.5 million
Greater Mumbai	Pune	Chandigarh	Tirupati
Chennai	Navi Mumbai	Tiruchirappalli	Karimnagar
Surat	Thane	Amravati	Bilaspur

 

 

List of Cities                                                              Annexure I

State/UT	Sl. No	Cities
Andaman and Nicobar	1	Portblair
Andhra Pradesh	2	Kakinada
	3	Visakhapatnam
	4	Tirupati
	5	Vijayawada
Arunachal Pradesh	6	Itanagar
	7	Pasighat
Assam	8	Guwahati
Bihar	9	Bhagalpur
	10	Muzaffarpur
	11	Biharsharif
	12	Patna
Chandigarh	13	Chandigarh
Chhattisgarh	14	Bilaspur
	15	Raipur
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	16	Silvassa
Daman and Diu	17	Diu
Goa	18	Panaji
Gujarat	19	Ahmedabad
	20	Surat
	21	Vadodara
	22	Gandhinagar
	23	Dahod
	24	Rajkot
Haryana	25	Karnal
	26	Faridabad
	27	Gurgaon
Himachal Pradesh	28	Dharamshala
	29	Shimla
Jammu & Kashmir	30	Jammu
	31	Srinagar
Jharkhand	32	Ranchi
	33	Dhanbad
Karnataka	34	Davanagere
	35	Belagavi
	36	Hubbali-Dharwad
	37	Mangaluru
	38	Shivamogga
	39	Tumakuru
	40	Bangalore
Kerala	41	Kochi
	42	Thiruvananthapuram
Laksadweep	43	Kavaratti
Madhya Pradesh	44	Indore
	45	Bhopal
	46	Ujjain
	47	Satna
	48	Sagar
	49	Jabalpur
	50	Gwalior
Maharashtra	51	Solapur
	52	Pune
	53	Aurangabad
	54	Kalyan-Dombivali
	55	Nagpur
	56	Amravati
	57	Nashik
	58	Thane
	59	Greater Mumbai
	60	Navi Mumbai
	61	PimpriChinchwad
	62	Vasai-Virar City
Manipur	63	Imphal
Meghalaya	64	Shillong
Mizoram	65	Aizawl
Nagaland	66	Kohima
NCT Delhi	67	Delhi
Odisha	68	Bhubaneswar
	69	Rourkela
Puducherry	70	Puducherry
Punjab	71	Jalandhar
	72	Ludhiana
	73	Amritsar
Rajasthan	74	Udaipur
	75	Ajmer
	76	Jaipur
	77	Kota
	78	Jodhpur
Sikkim	79	Namchi
	80	Gangtok
Tamil Nadu	81	Salem
	82	Thanjavur
	83	Vellore
	84	Dindigul
	85	Erode
	86	Tiruchirappalli
	87	Thoothukkudi
	88	Tiruppur
	89	Tirunelveli
	90	Chennai
	91	Coimbatore
	92	Madurai
Telangana	93	Warangal
	94	Hyderabad
	95	Karim Nagar
Tripura	96	Agartala
Uttar Pradesh	97	Lucknow
	98	Agra
	99	Moradabad
	100	Aligarh
	101	Rampur
	102	Rae Bareli
	103	Bareilly
	104	Jhansi
	105	Saharanpur
	106	Kanpur
	107	Varanasi
	108	Ghaziabad
	109	Meerut
	110	Allahabad
Uttarakhand	111	Dehradun

 

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