The state government of Tamil Nadu has been declared as the successful state under the grounds of best rural cleanliness as per the Swacch Bharat annual sanitation survey 2019 in what it can be learnt that the state got placed at the top spot for the current year which had seen dramatic rise in the ratings and in enhancing the rural sanitation and cleanliness.

The annual survey had revealed that Tamil Nadu has been ranked first while comparing to the larger states, which had registered its best spot in administrating rural areas where for the year of 2018, the state had stood at 11th rank while the states like Haryana and Gujarat spotted in first and second place respectively. After having been topped the list, Haryana and Gujarat had ought to lower its ranks to second and third spot.

At the Swacch Bharat awards function hosted by Ahmedabad yesterday, Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi had presented the award to Tamil Nadu's state minister for municipal administration S P Velumani where after being honored with an award for top state for rural cleanliness, the state minister had stated that he was overwhelmed to receive the best state award on behalf of the well mannered and civic sensed Tamil people and further dedicated the award to the state people.

This year's survey was camped in about 17,200 villages and 690 districts across the country and the survey had ranked the rural grounds based on the mechanisms and implementation of quantitative and qualitative sanitation facilities, from the feedback of the local people, from testifying the progressive local administration and from the assessments of the third party assessors.

The authorities had stated that the survey had attained the feedback from more than three crore citizens which was received through mobile applications while about 12 lakh people had registered their responses through phone calls. The on ground officials of survey had toured the rural schools, health facilities, anganwadis, religious places, accessible and safe level of sanitation with clear water facilities.

In conclusion, the survey had pictured that around 83% of the citizens who took part in the survey had reported that their villages house adequate arrangements to manage the liquid waste while 84% of the citizens had claimed to have good arrangements for solid waste whereas about 72% of the districts had indicated that they had successfully established a separate unit to ensure that no people of its respective administration would let to resume their old habits due to lack of poor and insecure sanitation facilities.