Indore tops clean air survey among cities with mn-plus people

Last Updated09/09/2023

The Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister recently announced awards under the Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2023 (clean air survey).

In September 2022, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change released guidelines on ‘Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan- Ranking of Cities’ under the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).
Objective:
- Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan is to give ranking to 131 cities in the country for implementing City Action Plans
- It was prepared as part of NCAP for reducing air pollution up to 40% by 2025-26.
Cities are required to do the self-assessment as per the framework provided on PRANA online portal.
'PRANA' is the acronym for Portal for Regulation of Air-pollution in Non-Attainment Cities.
This Sarvekshan provides a tool to cities to plan their actions in order to improve the air quality.
It is not based on the measurement of the air quality parameters to rank the cities.
It is based on the actions taken by the cities to improve the air quality in different domains.
Under the 1st category (more than 10 lakh population) Indore ranked first followed by Agra and Thane.
Indore received the highest score of 187 out of 200.
In the second category (between 3-10 lakhs population), Amravati secured first rank followed by Moradabad and Guntur.
Similarly, for the third category (less than 3 lakhs population) Parwanoo (Himachal Pradesh) secured first rank followed by Kala Amb (Himachal Pradesh) and Angul (Odisha).
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change