cleanliness

Once hit by a deadly plague, Surat is now India’s cleanest city. With smart tech, community effort, and a Rs 500 crore waste economy, it shows how cleanliness can become a habit.

Discover how India's cleanest villages are leading the way in sustainability, cleanliness, and community-driven environmental efforts.

Once areas of deforestation, litter, and heavy tourist influx, villages like Majuli, Yana, Nako, and Piplantri now exemplify sustainable practices.

From Ooty to Panchgani, here’s what experts across hill stations say about the burgeoning war on waste in these tourist hotspots.

Shalmali Nalawade was 11 when she decided to take up the mammoth cause of cleaning a river in Pune

The idea behind plogging is to pick up trash while jogging or running so that you and the environment are fit. Here's how Pune Ploggers are acing this fitness regime.

From bunds and channels to rainwater harvesting and desilting, IAS Vikranth Raja used ancient practices to solve modern problems!

"We removed over ten truckloads of garbage and renovated the place. Now, parents with their kids, pet parents with their dogs and especially the elderly of the area frequent the park every day."

“While the senior citizens entertain everyone with songs, stories and even ‘jhumelo’ dancing at times, the younger men, women and children sweep the streets, pick up plastic waste and discard them in designated dustbins.”

“We rarely get money from marathon organisers and municipal corporations. But it is nothing that we cannot tackle,” says the inspiring man. #Respect #RealLifeHero