Under the Swachhata App citizens can upload photos of the issues they are facing, like overflowing garbage dumps, and the local civic body will ensure they are addressed at the earliest. Representation pic

In a bid to improve their city’s ranking under the central government’s Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), around 21 municipal corporations across the country have gotten their hands dirty. Officials from the Delhi-based SBM have found these civic bodies fudging numbers of the complaints they are receiving on the Swachhata App, introduced by the Ministry of Urban Development last year to address civic issues.