Indore emerged as the cleanest city in India, followed by Bhopal and Chandigarh in the government’s cleanliness survey of 4203 cities. On the other hand, Maharashtra has been adjudged the second-best performing state in the survey, Jharkhand being the best. Of the 434 cities that participated in the 2017 survey, Mumbai ranked 29th, dropping 19 ranks below its position in the 2016 survey. This year, though, it has jumped up and is back in the Top 10 in tenth place in the overall cleanest city category of the survey. Interestingly, Mumbai was ranked as low as 147 in the first cleanliness survey conducted in 2014. But two years later it jumped up to the 10th rank in 2016.