Navi Mumbai’s Swachh Survekshan Award: What the Super Swachh League Recognises

The official release also includes a State First Swachh City category. That gives readers another reason to check the table heading when they see a local claim about a first-place result. A state-level recognition answers a different question from the national population categories. If two headlines appear to conflict, compare the programme year and award class first, then see whether one is reporting a national group and the other a result within a state.

Navi Mumbai was named among the top three Clean Cities of the Super Swachh League at the Swachh Survekshan 2025–26 awards. The government named Surat and Vijayawada in the same group. President Droupadi Murmu presented the awards at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on 11 November 2026.

The league is the category to look for when checking Navi Mumbai’s result. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs release names the three cities together. It also gives separate results for population-based awards, city partnerships and places recognised for the cleanliness of riversides, coastlines or Himalayan urban areas.

How to read Navi Mumbai’s result

Navi Mumbai, Surat and Vijayawada are the top three named in the Super Swachh League. When looking at a headline about the cleanest city, check the award heading and the year in the underlying results. A headline about the top result for a city with more than a million people can refer to a different table from a headline about Navi Mumbai.

The million-plus population category named Greater Visakhapatnam, Jabalpur and Lucknow as its leading cities. That category puts cities in a population bracket. The Super Swachh League recognises cities in a separate league. This is why both sets of names can appear in coverage of the same awards ceremony.

The previous award cycle offers context. The government’s 2024–25 release recorded the entry of Indore, Surat and Navi Mumbai into the Super Swachh League. Comparing that release with the latest results shows the difference between entering the league and appearing among its top cities in a later survey.

What the city partnership awards measure

The Swachh Shehar Jodi award recognises a mentor city and a partner city together. The ministry named Ahmedabad and Sanand, Indore and Depalpur, and Tirupati and Kuppam as the top three pairs. It says the awards use the combined score of the mentor and mentee, reflecting both local service delivery and the collaboration between the cities.

A city in one of those pairs can also be familiar from past cleanliness rankings. Check whether the result refers to the individual city or the partnership. Under the pairing initiative, the ministry says 70 mentor cities were paired with 191 mentee cities to share practices in waste management and sanitation.

New categories in the 2025–26 results

This cycle introduced awards for riverfront towns, coastal towns and Himalayan cities. The government named Rewa, Bilaspur and Varanasi for the riverfront award, and Puri, Alappuzha and Ratnagiri for the coastal award. Rudrapur, Jammu and Shopian were named in the Himalayan category. These awards recognise urban areas where the surrounding geography shapes local sanitation work.

The ministry said the survey covered 4,751 cities and gathered feedback from 2.70 crore citizens. Those figures describe the scale of the whole survey. If you are looking for a specific city, start with the named category and compare its result with the same category from a previous year where that comparison is available.

For Navi Mumbai, the result to record is its place among the top three Super Swachh League cities for 2025–26. For a comparison with another municipality, use the official award name alongside the city and year. That makes it possible to compare the same type of result across different headlines.