Executive Summary of the "Swachh Survekshan-2017"

Executive Summary

As a prelude to encouraging cities to improve urban sanitation, Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD)had conducted a “Swachh Survekhshan-2016” survey for the ranking of 73 cities in January 2016. In a bid to scale up the coverage of the ranking exercise and encourage towns & cities to actively implement mission initiatives in a timely  and innovative manner, MoUD now proposes to conduct its second survey to rank 500 cities(with a population of 1 Lakh & above) under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban(SBM-U).

The objective of the survey is to encourage large scale citizen participation and create awareness amongst all sections of society about the importance of working together towards making towns and cities to improve their service delivery to citizens, towards creating cleaner cities.

In order for cities to reap the maximum developmental benefits from the survey, concerned efforts are being taken to strengthen the capacities of the cities to understand the modalities and spirit of the survey. In addition to giving towns and cities more time to prepare for the survey, there will be intensive interactions with ULBs to familiarize them with the survey methodology, survey process and output indicators, and also clarifying their expectations from the survey.

Since citizen participation is a very crucial component of this survey, social media & other channels will be used strategically at both national, state & city level in order to educate citizens about the objectives of the survey methodology, as well as to reinforce the importance of their participation in the survey, in order to ensure significantly higher levels of participation from all citizens.
The Milestones of the "Swachh Survekshan" Survey are as mentioned below.

Sr.No.	Milestone	Proposed Date
1	Video conference with respective Municipal Commissioners /State Mission Directors to share the survey methodology	15th May 2016                   onwards
2	Extensive awareness generation & citizen engagement	1st June onwards
3	Start of Survey (Collection of data from Citizen Feedback)	4th Jan 2017
4	Completion of Field visit, data collection & analysis.	4th Feb 2017
5	Ranking of cities along with detailed indicator-wise and aggregated scores and detailed report with survey, analysis and findings.	On SBM Portal               15th Feb 2017