IT solutions and improving infrastructure may be the focus of government's Smart City and two other urban transformation schemes. But the real concern seems to be the poor state of "cleanliness" and "hygiene" in both big cities and small towns. Only three of the 98 cities selected under the Smart City scheme figure among top 10 clean cities while about 42% of these ranked beyond 200 in the recent Swachh Bharat rankings by urban development ministry.
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