Swachh Survekshan 2020 | 07 Jun 2019

The Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs has launched the Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS 2020) league, a quarterly cleanliness assessment of cities and towns in India.

• SS 2020 league will be integrated with Swachh Survekshan 2020, the 5^th edition of the annual cleanliness survey of urban India to be conducted from January – February 2020 by Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs under the aegis of Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban (SBM-U).
• Under ‘Continuous Survekshan’ – the SS 2020 League, cleanliness assessments will happen throughout the year and will feed into the larger annual survey in January 2020.
• Parameters pertaining to Wastewater treatment & reuse and fecal sludge management have been given special focus.

SS 2020: Quarterly Evaluation Mechanism

• SS League 2020 will be conducted in 3 quarters:
  
  • April – June
  • July – September
  • October – December 2019
• There will be a weightage of 2000 marks for each quarter to be evaluated on the basis of two parameters:
  
  • Monthly updation of SBM-U online MIS by cities.
  • citizen’s validation on the 12 service level progress indicators through outbound calls.
• Ranks will be assigned in two categories, namely:
  
  • cities with a population of one lakh and above
  • cities with a population of less than one lakh
• The performance of cities in SS League 2020 will be crucial to their ranking in Swachh Survekshan 2020 due to the 25% weightage of the quarterly assessments to be included in the annual survey in January 2020.

Need for a Quarterly Evaluation Mechanism

• Annual survekshan survey conducted once in a year, fails to sustain the behavioural change, as cities cleaned themselves up just before a survey and slipped down after that.
• Continuous monitoring element, that involves monitoring of cleanliness drives throughout the year was missing in the Annual survekshan surveys.