New Delhi Municipal Council wins cleanest capital city award

per cent door-to-door collection and processes all its waste on a daily basis. No garbage goes to the landfill site and the entire waste is incinerated to produce power," the council said in a statement.

All NDMC schools, middle and senior, have sanitary napkin-vending machines. It has also created 'young journalists' among schools students to spread the message of cleanliness in the community. The NDMC area also has 100 per cent sewerage connectivity.

Besides this, Indore has been named as the country's cleanest city for the fourth time in a row, Surat in Gujarat emerged as India's second cleanest city, followed by Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra which bagged the third spot in the 'Swachh Survekshan 2020' report.

( With inputs from IANS )