In the spiritual city of Varanasi, where the sacred Ganga flows, hundreds of thousands of devotees leave behind heaps of donated clothes at the ghats (riversides). This creates a massive cleaning challenge and poses a threat to wildlife that may accidentally ingest these textiles.

Enter IAS officer Akshat Verma, whose brilliant solution turned this issue into an opportunity.

While posted in the city, he had an innovative idea: instead of letting these discarded clothes........

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