Shimla, July 18 -- Exposing the lack of cleanliness in Queen of Hills- Shimla has slipped to third place in the state and plummeted to 347th place nationally out of 824 cities in the Swachh Survekshan 2024-25 rankings released on Thursday.

The state capital Shimla which was ranked as the cleanest city in Himachal Pradesh since 2015, has now fallen to third place. Theog was judged as the cleanest urban local body (UBL) of the Himachal Pradesh followed by the Nadaun in district Hamirpur.

The survey findings show that although Shimla has improved cleanliness in residential colonies and marketplaces, it lagged in key areas such as door-to-door garbage collection, segregation of wet and dry waste, waste disposal systems, and the cleaning of ...