If tourism is one of the visible spin-offs, let proven experts handle the town’s civic maintenance.
Some local municipalities do work hard on sanitation but the usual narrative is that the littering habit is inherent in the common people. However, there is no reason to be smug and not step up to hold our own bull by its horns. It is time to pick and select one example and work on it.
It’s easy to blame the teeming public for littering. Despite almost a decade of Swachh Bharat initiatives, what meets the eye leaves much to be desired. Special occasions and VIP visits do make a difference to the worst kept tourist destinations but post that brief interval, it is business as usual.
The recent consecration of the Ayodhya temple has catapulted the town as a potential city that will define the expertise of modern India to salvage infrastructure, civic systems and tourism management. It will serve as a beacon for similar civic development in Tier-2 and even tier 3…
















