Recently released annual rankings had showed most big cites including Delhi, Jaipur, Patna and Mumbai faring poorly on the cleanliness scale.

As on September 2015, just a fifth of the targeted 25 lakh individual toilets for a year and a fourth of the targeted 1 lakh community and public toilets have been built. (Source: Prem Nath Pandey)

As the Centre gears up to observe the one-year milestone of PM Narendra Modi’s flagship Swachh Bharat Mission, the score on the cleanliness report card for urban India is way below the mark.

As on September 2015, just a fifth of the targeted 25 lakh individual toilets for a year and a fourth of the targeted 1 lakh community and public toilets have been built. In achieving 100 per cent collection and waste transportation, only 2 of the targeted 1,000 cities have hit the mark. Not one of the targeted 100 cities have reported cent per cent processing and disposal of waste.

The urban part of the mission, which was launched on October 2, 2014, aims to construct 1.04 crore household toilets and 5.08 lakh community and public toilets by 2019. In the same period, it also aims to achieve 100 per cent success in door-to-door collection, transportation, disposal and processing of waste in all 4,041 statutory cities and towns of India.

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However, the mission is lagging behind. Merely 4.6 lakh individual toilets have been constructed even as applications for over 3 lakh toilets have been received. Only 25,000-odd community and public toilets have been built. Officials from Urban Development ministry confirmed that only Port Blair and Chandigarh have so far managed to establish a system of collecting and transporting waste from every household.