Until the trash is picked up, there will be no 'Clean India'

Cities must be empowered to make citizens pay for their waste

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A man scavenges through waste thrown into the Ganges Canal in Muradnaga, India. (Sipa via AP Images)

Karan Mehrishi is the author of "The India Collective: What India is Really All About" and the forthcoming "The Making of Monetary Policy in India: Imagining the Future."

This year, India has landed an unmanned explorer on the moon, corralled the members of the Group of 20 into unexpected consensus and posted the fastest growth among the world's large economies.

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