Over the last three years, Ahmedabad has dropped by four ranks to land on the tenth spot since 2019 in the latestSwachh Survekshanranking 2021.
Gujaraton the other hand has ranked third with 931 points in the latest 2021 cleanliness survey.
It is worth pointing out here is that the city had ranked 14 in 2016 and 2017 in a row and then in 2018 it ranked twelfth. The issue is significant as it was in this city between 1917 and 1919 that Mahatma Gandhi had launched one of the longest running cleanliness drives with Dr Hariprasad Desai in the Walled City, when he had returned from South Africa to set up the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad.
Another major blow to Gujarat in the cleanliness ranking was Bapus birthplace Porbandar, which dropped to the 146 rank among 695 districts that were assessed by the Union ministry of urban development. Back in 2016 it ranked 187 and it was only in 2020 that Bapus birthplace had risen to the rank 100. The state urban development department had asked Porbandar Nagarpalika and the District Administration to come out with a detailed plan for improving the situation of Bapu;s birthplace