Udupi: The central government released a list of cleanest and filthy districts of the country on Thursday, September 8. Udupi district has bagged a place in the top ten cleanest districts of the country.

The Centre had conducted a survey for which it had chosen as many as 75 from 600 districts of the country. While Udupi pocketed the ninth spot in the cleanest cities, Gadag district, standing on the 75th rank, earned the dubious distinction of being the most unhygienic districts.

Union rural development minister, Narendra Singh Tomar released the National Sample Survey Organization’s survey on Thursday. The survey, divided into plains and hilly regions, was conducted on various parameters like availability and use of toilets, littering, and stagnant water at homes.

Sindhudurg, Satara, Kolhapur, Ratnagiri and Thane districts, all from Maharashtra occupied the top five places in plains. While Nadia, Midnapore (east), Hoogli districts of West Bengal, Udupi from Karnataka and Churu (Rajasthan) bagged the next five top spots.

Mandi in Himachal Pradesh has been listed as the top in the cleanest among the hilly districts.

Bikaner in Rajasthan has occupied the top spot in less clean districts, while Gadag occupies the 75th place in the list.