India begins ambitious campaign to clean up dirty cities and villages

Commuters pass through an alley as a civic worker dumps waste in Kolkata, India. (Bikas Das/AP)

By Rama Lakshmi October 2 at 11:02 AM

NEW DELHI — With brooms in hand, politicians, bureaucrats, police officers and citizen groups descended on the streets Thursday to sweep away trash as part of an ambitious new effort to clean up India.
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