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Mysuru at No. 1, southern states top Swachh Bharat rankings

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New Delhi/Chennai: Mysuru in Karnataka and Thiruchirapalli (Trichy) in Tamil Nadu were ranked first and second among 476 cities in the “Swachh Bharat” rankings announced by the union urban development ministry on Saturday.

Over all 39 cities from the southern states of India were declared among the top 100 followed by 27 from the eastern states in the Swachh Bharat Rankings.

Besides Mysuru and Thiruchirapalli, other cities in the top 10 are Navi Mumbai, Kochi, Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru in Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram, Halisahar in West Bengal and Gangtok, the ministry said in a statement.

Thiruchirapalli is around 350 km from Tamil Nadu capital Chennai, which bagged the 20th position.

All the 476 Class-1 cities in 31 states and union territories, each with a population of above one lakh, were surveyed for assessing total sanitation practices covering a set of parameters.

The parameters included extent of open defecation, solid waste management, septage management, waste water treatment, drinking water quality, surface water quality of water bodies and mortality due to water-borne diseases.

“Thirty nine cities from the southern states are among the top 100 followed by 27 from the east, 15 from the west, 12 from the north and seven from the north-eastern states,” the ministry said in a release.

The survey conducted during 2014-15 was commissioned by the ministry as required under the National Sanitation Policy of 2008.

“Mysore (Mysuru) city in Karnataka has topped the rankings of 476 cities in the country with three more from the state figuring in the top 10. West Bengal does well with 25 cities/towns from the state finding a place in the top 100 cities,” it added.

According to the rankings, 15 of the 27 capital cities surveyed figured among the top 100 performers while five were ranked beyond 300. Bengaluru leads the list of capitals at 7th rank while Patna came at the bottom at 429.

Among the bottom 100 cities, 74 are from the North, 21 from the East, 3 from the West and 2 from the South.

Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) came at the bottom of 476, preceded by Bhind (MP), Palwal and Bhiwani, both in Haryana, Chittorgarh (Rajasthan), Bulandshahar (UP), Neemuch (MP), Rewari (Haryana), Hindaun (Rajasthan) and Sambalpur in Odisha at 467th rank.

Since the “Swachh Bharat” mission is being implemented in urban areas with the focus on construction of individual household, community and public toilets to eradicate open defecation and ensure door-to-door collection and disposal of municipal solid waste, all the 476 Class-1 cities have been ranked based on the data pertaining to these elements from out of the data generated in the survey.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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May 5, 2022

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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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