In this scenario, for six years in a row, one city, Indore, has won the first position among hundreds of aspiring municipalities. I asked Harshika Singh, the Municipal Commissioner of Indore, to let me visit a few sites and see for myself how things worked. Before flying out of Delhi, I got a call from an official in the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC). I also recalled what Raghuram Rajan, the erstwhile Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, had written about Indore in his book, The Third Pillar: “People treated Indore as a vast public garbage dump…. The biggest difference between Indore and other cities is that Indore recycles and sells whatever can be salvaged and makes it financially remunerative.

Source: The Hindu January 14, 2024 08:23 UTC