The Hindu       20.09.2014 

Cleanliness index soon to rank cities

Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
announcing the ambitious ‘Clean India’ mission, the Union Tourism
Ministry on Friday said it was working on a “cleanliness index’’ for
cities in the country to encourage the best performers and, in turn,
inspire others to spruce up.

Methodology

“We
are preparing a cleanliness index. The methodology has been drafted and
index calculated for six cities on a pilot basis. While we will not
name the dirtiest cities, we will certainly tell which are the
cleanest,” Tourism Secretary Parvez Dewan told reporters at a briefing
on work done by the Ministry in the first 100 days of the new
government.

Expected to encourage best performers and inspire others