The new rankings for the Swachh Survekshan survey, which ranks Indian cities in order of cleanliness, has ranked Vadodara on number 79 on a national level out of 425 cities. The survey, an initiative under Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, to rank cities as per their sanitation standards, has awarded 79th rank to Vadodara and statewide it has awarded Vadodara the 6th rank.   This is a step down for the city which had stood on the 44th rank in the previous year’s survey of 471 urban local bodies. It had further slipped from 2017 ranking of number 10 and was ranked 13 in 2016. According to Municipal Commissioner, Ajay Badoo remarked that Vadodara lost out on the ranking because of the documentation part. Since the VMC failed to upload some documentation, in SLP Documentation Vadodara missed out on marks since it scored a total of 406 marks out of 1250 but the aggregate score of most cities has been 800 plus. Vadodara also lost out the s

Author-Sweta Joshi