India, May 20 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) convened a two-day National Review of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 19-20 May 2026 under the chairpersonship of Sh. Manohar Lal, Hon'ble Union Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs.
The progress of SBM-Urban has been significant, with 97% of wards now covered under door-to-door waste collection and communities increasingly adopting source segregation through two-bin, four-bin and even six-bin systems. Waste processing has improved substantially from 16% in 2014 to 81% in 2026. Legacy waste remediation has also gained strong momentum, with 65% of the 26 crore metric tons of waste across 2,482 du...