India, Nov. 12 -- Navi Mumbai emerged as India's cleanest city, followed by Surat and Vijayawada, in the National Clean City category of the Centre's Swachh Survekshan Awards 2025-26 announced on Wednesday.

President Droupadi Murmu conferred the awards, the survey's 10th edition, at a ceremony at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi.

Indore, which topped every edition from 2017 to 2023, the last jointly with Surat, according to the housing and urban affairs ministry's toolkit for the survey, moved into the Super Swachh League in 2024-25 and was not in the main rankings. This year it was assessed as a mentor city under the Swachh Shehar Jodi (mentor-mentee city) initiative.

Under the survey's rules, the league is made up of cities that finished i...