<span style="color: #222222;">Maharashtra has received 40% of the total awards at the National Awards for the Clean Survey 2021 presented yesterday. With this, Maharashtra has become the state with the highest number of awards. Vita Municipality in Sangli district has been ranked first in the country while Lonavla and Saswad in Pune district have been ranked second and third in the country.<br />” <br />” Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray congratulated all the award recipients and lauded the efforts of the people involved in achieving the feat.<br />” <br />” AIR correspondent reports, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has said that this has raised the prestige of the state not only in the country but also in the world. He said from the very beginning, Maharashtra has been at the forefront of the sanitation movement and now the urban, as well as the rural areas, have embraced the sanitation movement.<br />”<br />”Mr Thackeray said public participation is the soul of the sanitation movement and stressed on the need to continue the movement of cleanliness uninterruptedly.</span><br />