2022 Swachh Survekshan Results Released

The results of 2022 Swachh Survekshan (7th edition) were announced by the President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu on 2nd October 2022 at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi. This edition of Swachh Survekshan is the world's largest survey on cleanliness by Swachh Bharat Mission. The focus of 2022 Swachh Survekshan is the welfare of sanitation worker.

 

The main focus of Swachh Survekshan is to make cities garbage free and open defecation free. It is an annual survey of cleanliness, hygiene and sanitation in cities and towns across India. it was launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aimed to make India clean and free of open defecation by 2nd October 2022.

 

The first Swachh Survekshan survey, conducted in 2016, covered only 73 cities. From 2016, it has been conducted every year in more than 4355 cities of the country. It has been redesigned innovatively to ensure that the process becomes more robust with focus on sustaining the behavioural change. 

 

In the 2022 edition, for the 6th consecutive time Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has topped the ranking list. It is the first 7-star garbage free city of the country. Madhya Pradesh is the cleanest state of India in the category “greater than 100 urban local bodies” and Tripura is the cleanest state in the category “less than 100 urban local bodies.”

 

The Rankings

 

Ranking of cities with population > 10 lakh

Top 10

Rank	City Name	Score
1	Indore	7146.41
2	Surat	6924.84
3	Navi Mumbai	6852.91
4	Visakhapatnam	6701.18
5	Vijayawada	6699.30
6	Bhopal	6608.41
7	Rajkot	5846.00
8	Ahmedabad	5720.87
9	Pune	5708.42
10	Greater Hyderabad	5612.68

 

Bottom 10

36	Faridabad	3492.94
37	North Delhi	3455.18
38	Patna	3337.28
39	Ranchi	3068.10
40	Ludhiana	3005.07
41	Srinagar	2986.75
42	Coimbatore	2899.11
43	Bengaluru	2892.98
44	Chennai	2866.14
45	Madurai	2250.77

 

Ranking of cities with population from 1 lakh to 10 lakhs

Top 10

Rank	City Name	Score
1	Tirupati	6583.71
2	Mysore	6566.44
3	New Delhi (NDMC)	6550.04
4	Ambikapur	6365.01
5	Noida	6332.20
6	Chandigarh	6208.52
7	Mira-Bhayandar	5967.40
8	Chhindwara	5911.98
9	Baramati	5898.90
10	Ujjain	5775.76

 

Bottom 10

Rank	City Name	Score
373	Siwan	1256.03
374	Chikmagalur	1213.90
375	Tonk	1149.23
376	Dimapur	1112.87
377	Thanjavur	1101.93
378	Kohima	1098.08
379	Kishangarh	990.35
380	Anantnag	827.69
381	Jhunjhunu	772.80
382	Itanagar	729.73

 

Ranking of States 

States With Less Than 100 Urban Local Bodies

Rank	State Name	Score
1	Tripura	2750.00
2	Jharkhand	2450.00
3	Uttarakhand	2245.00
4	Himachal Pradesh	2200.00
5	Haryana	1950.00
6	Kerala	1650.00
7	Manipur	1500.00
8	Sikkim	1500.00
9	Assam	1450.00
10	Goa	1400.00
11	Mizoram	1400.00
12	Nagaland	1350.00

 

States With More Than 100 Urban Local Bodies

Rank	State Name	Score
1	Madhya Pradesh	4470.00
2	Chhattisgarh	3890.00
3	Maharashtra	3530.00
4	Telangana	2990.00
5	Punjab	2935.00
6	Gujarat	2360.00
7	Andhra Pradesh	2270.00
8	Rajasthan	2150.00
9	Odisha	2100.00
10	Uttar Pradesh	2075.00
11	Bihar	2000.00
12	Karnataka	1925.00

Global Hunger Index 2022 released

The 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) was released on October 12, 2022. The GHI is a peer-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and country levels. The aim of the GHI is to trigger action to reduce hunger around the world.

Concern Worldwide works with the world's poorest people to transform their lives. It is an international humanitarian organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and suffering in the world’s poorest countries.

 

Welthungerhilfe is one of the largest private aid organisations in Germany, independent of politics and religion. It was established in 1962, as the German section of the "Freedom from Hunger Campaign".

 

How the GHI Is Calculated

Each country’s GHI score is calculated based on a formula that combines four indicators that together capture the multidimensional nature of hunger:

Undernourishment: the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake.

Child stunting: the share of children under age five who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition.

Child wasting: the share of children under age five who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition.

Child mortality: the share of children who die before their fifth birthday, partly reflecting the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments. 

 

This calculation results in GHI scores on a 100-point scale, where 0 is the best score (no hunger) and 100 is the worst. In practice, neither of these extremes is reached. A value of 100 would signify that a country’s undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality levels each exactly meets the thresholds set slightly above the highest levels observed worldwide in recent decades. A value of 0 would mean that a country had no undernourished people in the population, no children younger than five who were wasted or stunted, and no children who died before their fifth birthday.

 

Key Messages of 2022 GHI:

• Global progress against hunger has largely stagnated in recent years. In many countries across regions the situation has worsened. Indeed, one indicator used in the GHI, the prevalence of undernourishment, shows that the share of people who lack regular access to sufficient calories is increasing, with as many as 828 million people undernourished in 2021.
• The situation is likely to worsen in the face of the current barrage of overlapping global crises—conflict, climate change, and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic—all of which are powerful drivers of hunger. The war in Ukraine has further increased global food, fuel, and fertilizer prices and has the potential to contribute to food shortages in 2023 and beyond.
• These crises come on top of underlying factors such as poverty, inequality, inadequate governance, poor infrastructure, and low agricultural productivity that contribute to chronic hunger and vulnerability. Globally and in many countries and regions, current food systems are inadequate to the task of addressing these challenges and ending hunger.
• Africa South of the Sahara and South Asia are the regions with the highest hunger levels and are most vulnerable to future shocks and crises. Like other world regions, progress against hunger in these regions has stagnated, which is particularly troubling given their desperate need for improvement.
• Without a major shift, neither the world as a whole nor approximately 46 countries are projected to achieve even low hunger as measured by the GHI by 2030. There are 44 countries that currently have serious or alarming hunger levels. Twenty countries with moderate, serious, or alarming hunger have higher 2022 GHI scores than 2014 GHI scores, the most recent historical reference year for GHI scores in this report. These countries are in diverse world regions, not just those with the highest hunger overall.
• Levels of hunger and undernutrition vary widely within countries. Hotspots of food and nutrition insecurity persist even within well-performing regions and countries, where increased and targeted efforts are needed. A closer look at within-country data and at the performance of existing efforts to combat hunger can help guide programs and policies so that they benefit the specific populations most in need.

The Scores and Ranking:

The top 17 countries with a Score of less than 5 are: Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Chile, China, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Türkiye, and Uruguay.

 

The scores and ranks of India and the neighbouring countries are:

Country	Rank	Score
Sri Lanka	64	13.6
Myanmar	71	15.6
Nepal	81	19.1
Bangladesh	84	19.6
Pakistan	99	26.1
India	107	29.1

 

As it happens with all such global rankings where India fares poorly, the government spokespersons have objected to the Index. Activists of the Right to Food Campaign have, however, accused the Centre of diverting the issue of hunger away from the real situation on the ground and the food and nutritional insecurity in the country. Countering the Centre’s stand on the GHI that it overlooked Central schemes and that the sample size of the survey was too small, the activists argued that the survey was validated by the national data on unemployment and stagnant wages.

 

They said there had been a worsening in food security both in quantity and quality compared to the pre-COVID period for about 41% of the population. The activists urged the Centre to stop inadequate policy response to address the problem and to hold the census at the earliest to find the number of people without ration cards. They said about 12 crore people in the country had not been enrolled in the ration cards.