cleanliness

Did you know that shop owners are not supposed to make juice on surfaces that absorb water? Or that ice should be kept inside the freezer and not in thermocol?

With 11,000 volunteers joining in, this incredible citizen-led initiative has led to the return of 75 species of birds to the revived water bodies!

Malhar Kalambe started "Beach Please" in 2017 to make Dadar beach waste-free. For his efforts he was an award by the United Nations

“What makes Biate remarkable is that there are no strictly enforced rules here. There are no legal penalties for smoking in public places, for urinating in the open and for littering. They just don’t do it.”

Busy stations in Mumbai, like Sion, use up to 10 litres of acid every month to clean the stains. It takes the railway authorities over 60,000 litres of water and crores of rupees from the budget to clean the stains that are a result of the habits of careless people.

If you walk through any street here, you will notice that they are lined with potted plants, and you will be hard-pressed to find any garbage strewn around.

Women in these groups have taken it upon themselves to spread the message of sanitation. They speak about the hazards of open defecation and convince households to construct and use toilets.

It was something she took up the moment she entered the district capital of Ambikapur—a small city with a population of more than 140,000.

Indian Railways' in-house contest for the country's most beautiful station found a winner in Maharashtra's Chandrapur and Ballarshah junctions. Madurai, Madhubani, Gandhidham, Kota and Secunderabad also made it to the coveted list.

The Railways has always taken passenger feedback seriously.