Uttar Pradesh has performed veyr poor in centre’s Swachh Bharat test. In a ranking of 476 cities conducted by ministry of urban development, only one UP city, Etawah, has figured among the cleanest 100 cities. In fact prime minister’s constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh is among the bottom few cities with poor sanitation practices. The temple town ranks 418 among 476 cities. Bulandshahar, a western UP town is among the bottom 10 cities in the ranking.

The rankings are based on the extent of open defecation and solid waste management practices in these cities.According to the ranking announced by the ministry, Mysore Karnataka is the cleanest city with minimal open defecation and extensive adoption of solid waste management, sewage management practices, drinking water and water bodies quality.

Swachh Bharat ranking of capital cities :

S.No	Capital city	Swachh Bharat Rank
1	Bengaluru	7
2	Trivendrum	8
3	Gangtok	10
4	New Delhi Municipal Council	16
5	Chandigarh	21
6	Puducherry	23
7	Agartala	32
8	Port Blair	34
9	Aizawl	35
10	Guwahaty	51
11	Kolkata	56
12	Chennai	61
13	Dimapur	76
14	Imphal	83
15	Shimla	90
16	Bhopal	106
17	Shillong	120
18	Greater Mumbai	140
19	Srinagar	152
20	Lucknow	220
21	Ranchi	223
22	Hyderabad	275
24	Raipur	293
24	Gandhinagar	310
25	Bhubaneswar	331
26	Dehradun	360
27	Jaipur	370
28	Patna	429

As many as four cities from Karnataka are in top 10 rank, West Bengal does well with 25 cities in top 100. The survey conducted during 2014-15 commissioned by the ministry as required under national sanitation policy 2008.

The top 10 ranked cities being : Mysore, Thiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), Navi Mumbai, Kochi (Kerala), Hassan, Mandya and Bengaluru from Karnataka, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Halisahar (West Bengal) and Gangtok (Sikkim) in that order.

Swachh Bharat ranking of other major cities :

S.no	City	Swachh Bharat Rank
1	Mangalore	11
2	Madurai	20
3	Jalandhar	28
4	Pune	31
5	Kozhikode	41
6	Surat	63
7	Ahmedabad	79
8	Jamshedpur	109
9	Anantnag	115
10	Darjeeling	129
11	Tirupati	137
12	Agra	145
13	Secunderabad	191
14	Coimbattore	196
15	Visakhapatnam	205
16	Raibareilly	240
17	Kanpur	241
18	Nagpur	256
19	Vijayawada	266
20	Cuttack	296
21	Puri	298
22	Ujjain	355
23	Ludhiana	381
24	Allahabad	383
25	Gwalior	400
26	Ajmer	401
27	Udaipur	417
28	Varanasi	418
29	Jammu	427
30	Amritsar	430

Damoh (Madhya Pradesh) came at the bottom of 476, preceded by Bhind(MP), Palwal and Bhiwani, both in Haryana, Chittaurgarh (Rajasthan), Bulandshahar (UP), Neemuch (MP), Rewari(Haryana), Hindaun (Rajasthan) and Sambalpur in Odisha at 467th rank.