5-Star Garbage-Free Rating for 6 Cities

The government released a rating of cities for their garbage management, giving the top 'five-star garbage-free'' tag to six cities Chhattisgarh's Ambikapur and Madhya Pradesh's Indore, Gujarat's Rajkot and Surat, Karnataka's Mysore and Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai. A total of 141 cities have been rated -- six of them 5-star, 65 of three-star, 70 one-star. New Delhi, Haryana's Karnal; Andhra Pradesh's Tirupati and Vijayawada; Chandigarh; Chhattisgarh's Bhilai Nagar; Gujarat's Ahmedabad; MP's Bhopal; and Jharkhand's Jamshedpur are among ''three-star garbage-free rating'', Mr Puri said. Among the ''one-star garbage free cities'' are: Delhi Cantonment, Rohtak (Haryana); Gwalior, Maheshwar, Khandwa, Badnawar and Hathod (all five in MP); and Gujarat''s Vadodara, Bhavnagar and Vyara.