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Uttar Pradesh cities shine in Swachh Bharat Survey 2021: See list here

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Lucknow: Three (Ghaziabad, Kanpur and Meerut) out of seven cities in Uttar Pradesh improved their rankings in Swachh Bharat Survey 2021, while Varanasi, Prayagraj and Agra slipped in the rankings as compared to last year. Lucknow, however managed to hold its position in the rankings securing 12th position.
Seven cities from UP figured among 47 in the country with over 10 lakh population assessed in the survey – Lucknow (12th rank),
Ghaziabad (18th), Kanpur (21st), Agra (24th), Prayagraj (26th), Meerut (27th) and Varanasi (30th)
The rankings were released by the union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MOHUA) on Saturday and based on a cleanliness survey done across the country after dividing cities and towns into categories based on their population. The housing ministry had divided cities in two categories with population under 10 lakhs in which 372 cities participated and more than 10 lakh (48 cities).
Unlike SBS 2020, which had four parameters Citizen Feedback (1,500 marks), Certification (1,500 marks), Direct observation (1,500) and Service level progress (1,500). All 4,320 cities were evaluated only in three categories, Citizen Feedback (1,800 marks), Service Level Progress (2,400 marks) and Certification (1,800 marks).
 As, direct observation was removed, some other parameters under service level progress were added including Water Plus protocol and sewage treatment were included under the parameter.
Lucknow improved its score to (4586.17/6000) in comparison to (4,120/6000) last year. Similarly,  Kanpur also improved its score (3847.67/ 6000) as compared to (3783/6,000). A marginal decline was witnessed in score of Ghaziabad with the city scoring (4220.90/6000) as compared to (4283/6000).
Scoring of cities including Agra (3715.53/6000), (4391) last year, Prayagraj (3613/6,000) (4141) last year and Varanasi (3532/6000) (3684) last year were reduced as compared to last year.
Overall, among 13 states with 100 or more urban local bodies in the country, UP was placed at  sixth place above Odisha, Punjab, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Bihar.
Several cities including Varanasi and Kannuaj bagged top honors in all the subcategories of the newly introduced “Cleanest Ganga Town” category.  Lucknow was awarded “Best State Capital under Citizens Feedback”, “Cleanest Medium City” Noida, and “Big City Innovations and Best Practices” Ghaziabad.
City————————–——————-2021——-———————————–2020
Lucknow———————–—————-12th———-——————————–12th
Ghaziabad————————————-18th———-———————————19th
Kanpur——————————————21st——–———————————–25th
Agra————————–——————-24th——-————————————-16th
Prayagraj—————————————26th——–————————————20th
Meerut——————————————-27th——-————————————–41st
Varanasi———————-——————30th——–————————————–27th
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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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