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Which of the following cities bagged the Cleanest City Award for three consecutive years?

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Consistent public participation and strict enforcement of waste management rules are key to maintaining top cleanliness rankings.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Mysore
  • Ahmedabad
  • Chandigarh
  • Indore
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The Correct Option is D

Approach Solution - 1

This question is about a repeat winner in India's cleanliness rankings. Mysore, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh have all ranked well in cleanliness surveys at different points, but none of them managed to hold the top spot for three years running, so they can be grouped and set aside.

Indore is the city that actually achieved this, topping the Swachh Survekshan rankings for three consecutive years on the back of thorough waste segregation, door to door collection and active citizen participation.

So the correct answer is Indore.

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The distinguishing detail in this question is the word consecutive, a city could easily rank well once and then slip, so the real test is which city kept winning year after year.

  1. Mysore: Mysore's strong showing came mainly in the earliest editions of the cleanliness survey before other cities scaled up their sanitation efforts, and it did not maintain that lead for three straight years afterward.
  2. Ahmedabad: Ahmedabad has kept a respectable place in various city rankings over time, but respectable and repeat champion are not the same thing, and it never strung together three consecutive top finishes here.
  3. Chandigarh: Chandigarh's reputation for cleanliness rests largely on its planned layout and greenery rather than a sustained top rank in this particular survey across three cycles.
  4. Indore: Indore is the one city that repeated the feat three times over, aided by an administration that kept refining its waste management system each year instead of resting on an earlier good result, which is precisely what a consecutive streak requires.

Filtering for repetition rather than a single strong year leaves only one city standing.

So the correct answer is Indore.

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