<br />''Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri kicked off Swachh Survekshan 2019, the fourth edition of the annual cleanliness survey of urban India in New Delhi today. <br />''<br />''<br />''The survey will cover 40 crore people across over four thousand towns and cities. <br />''<br />''<br />''The completely digital and paperless survey will be completed in a record time of 28 days and it will be larger than the previous ones. In the survey, people's engagement is being given top priority. For the first time ever, inspection will be conducted without giving any prior information to the concerned official for real-time check and survey will be based on people's feedback. <br />''<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The objective of the Swachh Survekshan survey, which is conducted by an independent third party, is to encourage large-scale citizen participation, ensure sustainability of initiatives taken towards garbage free and open defecation free cities, and to provide credible outcomes.</span><br />