After the Swachh Bharat survey revealed that India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh is also the filthiest, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath decided to take the matter into his own hands, literally. Armed with a broom, the chief minister headed to a congested pocket of Lucknow and swept the streets along with his ministers.
He chose Saturday, a holiday for most, to kick-start the cleanliness drive in the state and to encourage the citizens to participate in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan and keep their cities clean.
The state got rather unflattering numbers on all cleanliness parameters in the nationwide cleanliness survey, Swachch Survekshan-2017, by the urban development ministry. Gonda turned out to be the dirtiest. Except for the holy city of Varanasi, PM Modi’s parliamentary constituency which ranked 32, no other UP city made it to the top 100. Fifty of the 62 of its cities that were surveyed ranked below 300.
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