New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi’s “clean India” dream has driven his ministers to the broom.
On Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary October 2, PM Modi will pick up a broom to launch his Swachh Bharat (clean India) mission, for which he wants a mass movement.
Some ministers have already taken his cue. Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today joined his staff in sweeping the corridors of Shastri Bhawan, the headquarters for several ministries.
Before him, Education Minister Smriti Irani picked up a broom and shovel at a government-run Kendriya Vidyalaya school as part of the cleanliness drive that ends on October 31.
For the first time in the history, October 2 will not be a holiday for government employees who have to report to work to take a pledge to work for clean India.
PM Modi said on Tuesday in Bangalore, “I will use the broom and beg citizens for 100 days a year or two hours a week to clean India,” he had said earlier this week, adding, “We move into a new house and the first thing we do is cleaning. First the public did the cleaning; now we are doing it.
The railway ministry will also launch its own campaign to keep train stations and platforms clean.Modi had on August 15 announced the launch of the campaign.
Bureau Report
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