“In the course of our study, we found that waste management to a large extent is about the public mindset,” pointed out CSE director Sunita Narain. If below-par solid-waste management practices plagued Delhi at “every level”, the union territory of Chandigarh, too, was categorised among the “dirtiest” by the CSE. As for Delhi, the CSE study cited the national capital had no door-to-door collection of garbage in several of its areas. That government survey based on performance in SWM (solid waste management), sanitation strategies and behavioural change had top-rated Mysuru. Agartala (Tripura) and Gangtok (Sikkim) in the Northeast besides the IT hub of Bengaluru (Karnataka) in the south fared the worst along with Chandigarh, Delhi and Shimla--the Himachal pradesh capital touted as a scenic hill station.

Source: Hindustan Times July 12, 2016 06:00 UTC