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One of Boras creations even graces the entrance to Bosa village, where a painted clay statue of an elderly man wearing a dhoti-kurta and gamosa exhorts visitors not to litter...
Bosa village is among 148 villages and 24 tea gardens participating in an Inter-Village Tea Garden Cleanliness Competition in Assams Khumtai Assembly constituency..
Since mid-February, when the competition began, 18 judges a disparate group of district administration officers, senior journalists, environmentalists and retired professors have visited the villages, ranked them on their cleanliness and submitted the results in a sealed envelope to local MLA Mrinal Saikia, who came up with the idea of the competition...
Talking to The Indian Express, MLA Saikia points to the tourist footfall in Meghalayas Mawlynnong, famous as Asias cleanest village, and says he came up with the competition in a bid to promote rural tourism in the region..
On March 4 and 5, five groups of judges one group for villages under each of the four zila parishads and one for the tea gardens visited the remaining villages to decide on the winners...
