NEW DELHI: Indore, the cleanest town in India, has additionally crowned the checklist of million-plus- inhabitants towns within the ‘Swachh Vayu Survekshan’ (blank air survey) 2025 for imposing air air pollution mitigation measures underneath the Nationwide Blank Air Programme (NCAP), whilst town lags relating to decreasing PM10, a key pollutant, ranges in 2024-25.The survey has ranked towns at the foundation of actual motion at the floor to handle other polluting actions. It has put Navi Mumbai at 4th place, Kanpur at fifth, Bhopal at sixth, Allahabad at seventh, Chandigarh at eighth, Ahmedabad, Pune and Nagpur at tenth, Varanasi and Raipur at eleventh, Lucknow at fifteenth, Hyderabad at twenty second, Mumbai at twenty fifth, Jaipur at twenty sixth, Delhi at thirty second, Bengaluru at thirty sixth, Kolkata at thirty eighth and Chennai at forty first within the checklist of million plus inhabitants towns.
Since relief in PM10 focus degree has low weightage within the total rating, Indore and a few different towns determine on the best of the checklist regardless of reporting upper ranges of the pollutant than others which aren’t a few of the toppers in the once a year ‘Swachh Vayu Survekshan’.Mockingly, Indore has reported an building up in reasonable annual focus of PM10 in 2024-25 (83 μg/m3) in comparison to the 2017-18 degree (82 μg/m3): a upward push of one.2%.Against this, there are lots of million-plus-population towns comparable to Chennai (58 μg/m3), Varanasi (59 μg/m3), Bengaluru (68 μg/m3) and Hyderabad (81 μg/m3) which had now not most effective decrease PM10 focus than Indore in 2024-25 but additionally considerably decrease degree of the pollutant in comparison to 2017-18.
The result of the survey, introduced by way of Union setting minister Bhupender Yadav on Tuesday, display Jabalpur, every other town in Madhya Pradesh, at the second one place at the checklist of million-plus-population towns, adopted by way of Agra (UP) and Surat (Gujarat), which percentage the 3rd spot.Indore regained its best place in 2025 after slipping to 6th rank ultimate yr. It crowned the checklist for the primary time in 2023, in the second one version of the survey, while Lucknow figured on the best in its inaugural version in 2022.In 2025, Amravati secured first rank within the 3-10 lakh inhabitants class, adopted by way of Jhansi and Moradabad (joint 2nd rank), and Alwar (3rd rank). Within the 3rd class of towns (inhabitants underneath 3 lakh), Dewas (MP) secured first rank, adopted by way of Parwanoo (Himachal Pradesh) and Angul (Odisha).At the instance, Yadav additionally printed the growth made by way of towns, with PM10 ranges taking place in 103 out of the 130 towns underneath NCAP. He mentioned 64 towns have proven a 20% relief in PM10 ranges in 2024-25 in comparison to 2017-18, and 25 towns have reached the 40% relief mark.The surroundings ministry’s data display that Mumbai registered the perfect decline of 44% in PM10 degree in 2024-25 in comparison to 2017-18. It used to be adopted by way of Kolkata (37%), Hyderabad and Bengaluru (26% each and every), Delhi (15%), and Chennai (12%) a few of the six large metro towns.Despite the fact that a complete of twenty-two out of the 130 towns have met the nationwide ambient air high quality requirements (NAAQS) by way of reporting annual reasonable PM10 concentrations of not up to 60 micrograms consistent with cubic metre (μg/m3), Chennai is most effective large metro that met the suitable prohibit, recording an annual reasonable of 58 μg/m3.Alternatively, the PM10 ranges in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru proceed to be upper than the suitable prohibit by way of reporting 203 μg/m3, 92 μg/m3, 90 μg/m3, 81 μg/m3 and 68 μg/m3, respectively.But even so awarding the best-performing towns underneath ‘Swachh Vayu Sarveshan’ 2025, Yadav passed over certificate issued by way of Ramsar Conference Secretariat to the mayors and district creditors of Indore and Udaipur for being recognised as ‘Wetland Towns’ underneath the Conference.He additionally introduced that the govt. has centered planting 75 crore crops all over the ‘Seva Parv’ around the nation underneath ‘Ek Ped Maa ke Naam’ marketing campaign from Sept 17 to Oct 2.