Top 10 Dirtiest Cities in India 2025: Cities are a reflection of the health and discipline of a country. Many Indian cities have come up under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, while some continue to be afflicted by waste management, pollution, and sanitation issues. From surveys and reports of cleanliness, these 10 cities have been identified and ranked as deserving of urgent corrective check.
Madurai
Overflowing garbage bins and an equally improper system of waste disposal with drainage systems choked with filth are relics to a culturally rich city like Madurai.
Ludhiana
As an industrial town, Ludhiana faces a lot because of the industrial waste. It is infamously infamous for very high air pollution.
Chennai
Equally metropolitan, Chennai has proved adept at very poor garbage segregation and storm water management especially with rainy monsoons setting in.
Ranchi
Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, does not have a proper urban waste disposal facility, with the result that its roads littered and there are open dumping grounds.
Bengaluru
The city’s pristine tech image gets associated with rising heaps of garbage, debris owing to construction, and pollution in lakes.
Dhanbad
Often called the Coal Capital of India, Dhanbad scrabbles for coal dust, industrial pollution, and unmanaged solid waste with sincere efforts.
Faridabad
Rapid urbanization coupled with lack of adequate waste management system has pushed Faridabad low on the cleanliness surveys chart.
Mumbai
The financial capital of India has become a victim of the overcrowding nature, slums. And waste disposal issues lingering throughout most suburbs and along the coastline.
Srinagar
Tourism and underdevelopment has stressed the turf unhygienic public spaces via uncared waste systems.
Delhi
Air quality of Delhi is amongst the most polluted in the world, worsened with litter, construction waste, and poor waste segregation.
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The filthiest cities in India call for urgent civic management, public awareness, and strict enforcement of laws on waste disposal. Growth matters, but coupled with cleanliness; this makes sense.