Kolkata: Tarakeswar municipality has won a national award in Swachh Survekshan 2025-26, recognised for meeting the cleanliness, citizen awareness and urban service delivery parameters of the Swachh Bharat Mission. The awards will be presented at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Nov 11.Urban development and municipal affairs minister Agnimitra Paul congratulated the municipality in social media posts.“For 10 years, Bengal did not participate in the annual Swachh Survekshan, a rigorous cleanliness assessment of each city across 150+ swachhata parameters. The survey was not allowed to happen in our cities. This year, our new govt has ensured that it must change,” she said.“With corrective steps taken these past few months, most of our cities were assessed, and our historic city of Tarakeswar has won a national award in Swachh Survekshan 2025-26,” she added.Paul has been advocating statewide cleanliness campaigns, stressing twice-daily street sweeping and waste segregation at source.The state has also launched the ‘Swachh’ app for technology-driven monitoring of urban sanitation, public reporting and civic service delivery.
