19-May-2020: Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs announces results of Star rating of garbage free cities.

For the assessment year 2019-2020, a total of six cities have been certified as 5-Star, 65 cities as 3-Star and 70 cities as 1-Star. The Star Rating Protocol was launched by the Ministry in January 2018 to institutionalize a mechanism for cities to achieve Garbage Free status, and to motivate cities to achieve higher degrees of cleanliness.

The protocol 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.

While the key thrust of this protocol is on Solid Waste Management, it also takes care of ensuring certain minimum standards of sanitation through a set of prerequisites defined in the framework.

In the recent phase of Star Rating Assessment, 1435 cities had applied.

Cities which achieved the 5-Star status:

• Ambikapur – Chhattisgarh
• Rajkot – Gujarat
• Surat – Gujarat
• Mysore – Karnataka
• Indore – Madhya Pradesh
• Navi Mumbai – Maharashtra