Ambikapur's 'women warriors' get top honours for making city garbage-free

City joins three other erstwhile princely state capitals with this distinction

Ambikapur city, the capital of the erstwhile princely state of Surguja in Chhattisgarh, has found place among the six cities across the country ranked 5-star for having become garbage-free.

The city still has a big influence of erstwhile Surguja state, which was one of the prominent princely states in central India during the British Raj. The titular Maharaja of Surguja, T S Singh Deo, has been representing the Ambikapur constituency in the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly since it was declared unreserved in 2008.

Interestingly, most of the cities ranked 5-star for being garbage-free have been capitals of princely states. The Ministry of Housing