Navi Mumbai has finished first in the Super Swachh League at the Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26, with Surat and Vijayawada taking second and third. President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on November 11, in the tenth edition of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs’ annual cleanliness survey under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0.
The Super Swachh League is where cities with a history of topping the survey are ranked against each other, which is why Navi Mumbai’s result is being widely described as a “cleanest city” win. In the main Swachh Shehar ranking for cities with a population over one million, Visakhapatnam took first place, followed by Jabalpur and Lucknow.
This year’s survey introduced several new national award categories, including Swachh River Front Town, Swachh Coastal Town and Clean Himalayan City, alongside a Swachh Shehar Jodi category pairing mentor cities with mentees: Ahmedabad-Sanand, Indore-Depalpur and Tirupati-Kuppam took the top three there. In all, 60 national awards were announced across five categories.
The ministry said more than 350 urban local bodies jumped 500 or more ranks this year, and over 1,700 smaller towns with populations under 50,000 improved their standings. State-level winners will be honoured at separate ceremonies in their states.
Source: Press Information Bureau: Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26.