India’s PM Launches Massive Drive to Clean Up Country

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a massive nationwide cleanliness drive to spruce up the country and provide toilets to all households by 2019.  The challenge will be daunting in a country whose sprawling cities often overflow with garbage due to poor waste disposal systems and where more than half the population does not have access to toilets.   Challenge: civic volunteerism  Prime Minister Narendra Modi literally wielded the broom Thursday in a poor...

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