Mysuru: “There were two main reasons for us to lose the cleanest city tag this time and they were the poor response of the citizens feedback and lagging behind in construction of toilets,” said Mayor M.J. Ravikumar.
Addressing the media here, after arriving from New Delhi early in the morning, at the old Council Hall in the Mysuru City Corporation, he said, last time there were only 73 cities with a population of ten lakh that were vying for the cleanest city tag. However, this time there were 436 cities with some having even a population of one lakh who were in contention and hence the competition had become that much tougher.
