Under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Indian Government has instituted the Swachh Survekshan Awards which ranks participating cities on key parameters every year. The results of the “Swachh Survekshan 2017” have been released, where 500 cities of India would be ranked on the parameters of waste collection, sweeping and transportation; municipal solid waste processing and disposal; open defecation status; information, education and behaviour change and; capacity building. Madhya Pradesh has topped this list in the year 2017. Indore has been ranked as the cleanest city in India. Bhopal is at the second spot in this list. The two major cities of MP have figured at the top in cleanliness, clearly an achievement for the state of MP. Indore and Bhopal are the two major cities in central India. The survey was conducted as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, the campaign for clean India. Earlier, Mysore was the cleanest city in India. One of the interesting facets of the awards is active citizen participation in selecting the cleanest cities, as the as the citizen feedback has 30% weightage, besides collection of performance data through direct observations and independent assessment.