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Road users passing by as anti-smog sprinklers mounted on lamp posts spray water to curb air pollution in New Delhi.
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Ask any Indian to name the country’s cleanest city, and chances are that Indore’s name will come up first. The city in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has been named as the cleanest for eight consecutive years in a flagship government countrywide cleanliness survey.
It is a laurel the city’s officials and residents are fiercely proud of and defend as tenaciously as a football club would its championship trophy. Roads are refreshingly cleaner here and Indore’s residents dump their waste dutifully each morning into municipal trucks after pre-segregating it into as many as six categories, including electronic and plastic.
