India, Oct. 24 -- In Gurugram's Sector 47, where gleaming towers sit next to choked service lanes and overflowing bins, one resident has turned civic responsibility into a personal calling.

Aman Verma, 36, a senior executive with a German multinational company, spends his weekdays in boardrooms and his weekends cleaning his community - one street, one corner, one house at a time.

An engineer by profession and resident of Malibu Town since 2014, Verma said he started this effort almost by accident. "It started when I couldn't stand the garbage lying near my gate," he recalls. "I picked up a broom, cleared it, and realised it felt better than complaining."

What began as a spontaneous act soon became a routine. Every evening after work, h...