This is what Asia’s Cleanest Village in Meghalaya looks like !

Driving through the hills of East Khasi district in Meghalaya, that also on a typical rainy day, would be a blessing to any person who comes from a concrete jungle, caught in the web of work-home-work, The cleanest village in Asia Looks like?

The otherwise beautiful Meghalaya turns into a paradise during rains as the greens get greener and the clouds seem like at an arm's distance. 
The journey to any place is splendid and you would want to spend your entire day just driving through the state marvelling in its natural beauty. 
But, what if the destination turns out to be even more magical and picturesque? That's Asia's Cleanest Village-Mawlynnong for you. 
An urban junkie would avoid a visit to any typical village during a heavy rain day, fearing muck, potholes, mounds of garbage everywhere. 
However, Mawlynnong lives up to its name that it earned in 2003. It is indeed the cleanest village, not in India but in all of Asia. Almost 100 kilometres away from Shillong, the village is hard to miss as it literally looks like a picture on a travel postcard. 
And, all credit goes to the residents of this quaint and peaceful place, who without any support from the government, have turned the village into a green haven. 

"Our forefathers have imbibed this thing in us. The village is like our house, we should keep it clean. Everyone here is responsible for this village's cleanliness and everyone feels a sense of responsibility towards this cause here," said Phillip, who runs a tea stall here.

 

Even before PM Narendra Modi started his famous drive to clean all of India, 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan', inhabitants of this village have been sweeping, gathering garbage, and installing dustbins here. 

 

"We teach our children also to keep the village clean. Even if we drop something by mistake and the ground gets dirty, people feel guilty about it,"

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