Bhubaneswar has grabbed the 24th position in the Swachh Sarvekshan-2016 and the Top Mover (East Zone) Award. Cuttack has ranked the 59th position in the list of 73 cities.
The two cities got their ranks, respectively, on cleanliness and sanitation. Cities with over 10-lakh population were surveyed to check how clean or filthy they were, said Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday.
BMC Mayor Ananta Narayan Jena and Municipal Commissioner Krishan Kumar received the Top Movers Award (East Zone) from Naidu in New Delhi.
Mysore of Karnataka topped the list of 10 cities while Chandigarh emerged second and Tiruchirappalli the third.
New Delhi came fourth in the list, whereas Visakhapatnam, Surat, Rajkot and Gangtok were in fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth positions, respectively. In 2014, the Ministry had carried out a similar exercise in 476 cities and municipalities with a population of over 1, 00,000.