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Indore won the cleanest city title for the seventh consecutive time.
Among the states,
Saswad in Maharashtra won the cleanest city award among cities with less than one lakh population.
Patan in Chhattisgarh and Lonavala in Maharashtra got the second and third awards in this category.
Apart from Navi Mumbai, these smaller cities helped to ramp up the points for Maharashtra.
Varanasi won the best award among the Ganga towns.
President Droupadi Murmu gave away the awards to the winners at a function that was attended Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.