Varanasi - Modhi heartland. UPDATED

Our guide is very happy with PM Modhi.

We had commented to him that Varanasi did not seem as littered as parts of India we had seen previously.  He told us that since Modhi's election, there has been a strident attack on rubbish in Uttar Pradesh, and in other parts of India..  People were to have 4 "sweepings" a day and there would be collection twice a day - and it was being carried out and people now were looking to this as the "new normal".

There were even rubbish tins.

And people collecting the "sweepings".

And larger collection bins.

We saw the larger collection centre.

Modhi has also built public toilets.  We saw these - and the larger ones have an attendant.  In fact I used one at Sarnath.  It was a basic squat toilet, but kept clean and hosed down.  No paper, but certainly better than squatting in the street.  No doubt there is much more for Modhi to do, but you have to begin somewhere. Our guide certainly approved.