About 31 lakh Central Government employees to take cleanliness pledge tomorrow

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A very good initiative..It may be symbolic..But hope the 31 lac become the change agents for cleanliness across the country! As a country we are most indisciplined in following rules, regulations, policies and procedures..We have to have a mindset of following..Each one of us wants to live in our own world which breeds chaos...We need to inculcate this habit..There should be severe penalties and fines for non compliance

About 31 lakh employees to take cleanliness pledge tomorrow

PTI | Oct 1, 2014,

NEW DELHI: About 31 lakh central government employees working across the country will take a pledge of cleanliness in various public functions to be organized tomorrow as part of the Narendra Modi administration's 'Clean India' campaign.

In addition, lakhs of state government employees have been asked to be part of this massive drive which will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday.

"It has been decided that on October 2, 'Swachhta Shapath' (cleanliness pledge) will be administered to all in government offices and public functions or events and cleanliness drive led by senior officers will be undertaken in all government and public offices," Cabinet secretary Ajit Seth said in a communique to secretaries of all departments.



There are about 30.98 lakh central government employees in the country. Each central government department has made plans to administered the oath to its employees.

Home secretary Anil Goswami will administered the cleanliness pledge to employees of home ministry and personnel ministry tomorrow in North Block premises.

Union minister Smriti Irani promoting the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. (PTI photo)

The Prime Minister has given a call for 'Swachh Bharat' (Clean India) as a mass movement to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a clean India by 2019, when the country will celebrate 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation.

"For a campaign of this nature to be successful, there is a need to create massive public awareness and to ensure participation and action for cleaning homes, government offices, schools, hospitals, work places, streets, roads and markets, railway stations and bus terminals, statues, monuments, rivers, lakes,ponds, parks and other public places.

"It is important to involve government and public sector officials at every level, non-government organisations, education and health institutions, rural and urban local bodies, self-help groups, youth organisations, resident and market associations as well as business and industrial chambers and associations in the cleanliness and awareness drives," Seth said in his letter.

Union minister for mines, steel and labour & employment Narendra Singh Tomar launching the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' in New Delhi. (PTI photo)

A variety of activities such as pledge-taking marches, marathons, debates, street plays, music and essay competitions, cleaning drives and other community activities may be used to focus public attention on this campaign and on the need for cleanliness, Seth said.

Meanwhile, the departments heads have swung into action and directed concerned officials to clear office premises of clutter, garbage, building materials, unused vehicles and others.

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[krish44]

in govt , if they clear the old files they will be left only with themselves.lol

with less government slogan , we my have to send themhome also

it is a brilliant oppurtunity to throw away the sensitive files for bureaucrats , they can clear their past sins and start with fresh ones.

now the next issue what to do with space created?

My govt company a decade back gave a wonderful chance with a golden handshake for employees which was very generous.

the hidden motive was to save the rent on two buildings in prime location which it had taken for seating employees

it got rid of nearly 20 percent of employees this way and became a new organisation in young avathar.lol

 

[sangom]

A very good initiative..It may be symbolic..But hope the 31 lac become the change agents for cleanliness across the country! As a country we are most indisciplined in following rules, regulations, policies and procedures..We have to have a mindset of following..Each one of us wants to live in our own world which breeds chaos...We need to inculcate this habit..There should be severe penalties and fines for non compliance

About 31 lakh employees to take cleanliness pledge tomorrow

PTI | Oct 1, 2014,

NEW DELHI: About 31 lakh central government employees working across the country will take a pledge of cleanliness in various public functions to be organized tomorrow as part of the Narendra Modi administration's 'Clean India' campaign.

In addition, lakhs of state government employees have been asked to be part of this massive drive which will be launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday.

"It has been decided that on October 2, 'Swachhta Shapath' (cleanliness pledge) will be administered to all in government offices and public functions or events and cleanliness drive led by senior officers will be undertaken in all government and public offices," Cabinet secretary Ajit Seth said in a communique to secretaries of all departments.



There are about 30.98 lakh central government employees in the country. Each central government department has made plans to administered the oath to its employees.

Home secretary Anil Goswami will administered the cleanliness pledge to employees of home ministry and personnel ministry tomorrow in North Block premises.

Union minister Smriti Irani promoting the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. (PTI photo)

The Prime Minister has given a call for 'Swachh Bharat' (Clean India) as a mass movement to realise Mahatma Gandhi's dream of a clean India by 2019, when the country will celebrate 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation.

"For a campaign of this nature to be successful, there is a need to create massive public awareness and to ensure participation and action for cleaning homes, government offices, schools, hospitals, work places, streets, roads and markets, railway stations and bus terminals, statues, monuments, rivers, lakes,ponds, parks and other public places.

"It is important to involve government and public sector officials at every level, non-government organisations, education and health institutions, rural and urban local bodies, self-help groups, youth organisations, resident and market associations as well as business and industrial chambers and associations in the cleanliness and awareness drives," Seth said in his letter.

Union minister for mines, steel and labour & employment Narendra Singh Tomar launching the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' in New Delhi. (PTI photo)

A variety of activities such as pledge-taking marches, marathons, debates, street plays, music and essay competitions, cleaning drives and other community activities may be used to focus public attention on this campaign and on the need for cleanliness, Seth said.

Meanwhile, the departments heads have swung into action and directed concerned officials to clear office premises of clutter, garbage, building materials, unused vehicles and others.

About 31 lakh employees to take cleanliness pledge tomorrow - The Times of India

Yes, it is "symbolic" and will remain so. It is difficult to change the millennia-old habits of a people just within one generation or even in one century. When the aristocratic/super-rich people travelling in the costliest of cars throw- even today - plantain peels, biscuit covers, plastic drinking water bottles, etc., from their racing cars, with "gay abandon" as the old usage went, how can we expect the population at large to learn basic civic sense and implement it?

 

[prasad1]

Modi making cleaning India one of his priorities has accordingly catapulted the big problem areas of lack of toilets and open defecation to the forefront of policy making in India.


Additionally, it has also underlined the failure of country’s sanitation programmes. Nearly three decades after the first efforts were made in this direction, when the government launched central rural sanitation programme in 1986, and 15 years after a more focused campaign to build toilets was made in the form of Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in 1999, the results have been abysmal. According to Census 2011, 67% of the rural households and 13% of the urban households defecate in the open. A global comparison is not too flattering either. India accounts for 60% of those who practice open defecation.
So, what ails our sanitation programmes?


According to a survey by non-governmental organisation Research Institute of Compassionate Economics, 40% of households that have a working latrine have at least one person who regularly defecates in the open.


Again less than half of people who have a government latrine use it regularly and half of people who defecate in the open say that they do so because it is pleasurable, comfortable and convenient. The report suggests the problem is with people’s sanitation preferences and it is these preferences that need to be moulded along with the task of building toilets. “The survey sheds light on why years of government policy focused on latrine construction have done so little to reduce open defecation. Simply building toilets and latrines does not change people’s minds about using them. “New policies must focus on creating demand for toilet and latrine use rather than building toilets that few people, other than the contractors who are paid to build them, actually want,” the report published in June said.


The problems with the flagship TSC, which doles out Rs. 10,500 per household for building toilets, was flagged by the World Bank in 2010 when it questioned the sustainability of the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP), a cash incentive (Rs 50,000 to 50 lakh) under the campaign to encourage villages go 'open defecation free' (ODF). “Studies on NGP sustainability showed that only 73% have access to toilets in NGP villages, while usage of household toilets is low at 67%,” said the report. The report underlined that while villages do achieve the ODF status, lured by the cash incentive, they fail to sustain it because the toilets states subsidise lie unused with people going back to defecating in the open.


Modi’s emphasis on toilets has jolted the government into taking some corrective steps. It has not only stepped up the efforts at building toilets it has also asked the states to go for behavioural changes in rural population through coordinated effort of different departments and ministries. "One of the biggest challenges in making the country ODF is triggering behavioural change in the population to accept the need for building and using toilets. A large number of people amongst the Indian population are still unconvinced of the need to build toilets in their home,” the rural development ministry wrote to all the states in August. "In this connection coordinated effort by all the departments of the state governments that have interface with the rural population is required," the ministry’s letter stated.


Bindeshwar Pathak, founder of Sulabh Sanitation and Social Reform Movement, is hopeful of the government’s move yielding results. The man who has been involved in the field of sanitation for years said Indians were clean as individuals but had "nasty habits" as a community. "People spit betel juice, throw waste on roads, women at times throw household waste near their homes, shopkeepers dump garbage on roads after closing their establishments," Pathak told IANS.

Broom with a view: Why we need Clean India campaign - Hindustan Times

 

[vgane]

Good initiative to involve Hindu maths and other organisations in this!

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches his ambitious Swachh Bharat project in New Delhi on Thursday, saffronclad 'volunteers' across ashrams, temples and akhadas will pool in manpower to take the message of public hygiene to the masses, from Varanasi to Kanchi. The BJP-led government has reached out to several Hindu religious and spiritual organisations seeking their support for the project, and according to officials, among those that have already been contacted are the Ramakrishna Mission, Patanjali Yogpeeth of Baba Ramdev, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living, Gayatri Pariwar, Kanchi Kamakoti Peeth and Siddha Ganga Math.

As the project advances, more organisations will be roped in to "spread the message of cleanliness and hygiene" among people, they said. Urban development ministry officials said they are also in talks with Muslim and Christian organisations to take the movement forward, but no organisation has been approached formally so far.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-reaches-out-to-religious-organisations-to-propagate-swachh-bharat-message/articleshow/44034029.cms

 

[tbs]

in govt , if they clear the old files they will be left only with themselves.lol

with less government slogan , we my have to send themhome also

it is a brilliant oppurtunity to throw away the sensitive files for bureaucrats , they can clear their past sins and start with fresh ones.

now the next issue what to do with space created?

My govt company a decade back gave a wonderful chance with a golden handshake for employees which was very generous.

the hidden motive was to save the rent on two buildings in prime location which it had taken for seating employees

it got rid of nearly 20 percent of employees this way and became a new organisation in young avathar.lol

hi

they want to get rid of olden rotten employees too....so that there is NO PAAN STAIN WALLS OF MINISTRIES IN SOUTH

AND NORTH BLOCK OF SECRETARIAT....a lot of PAAN stains in govt buildings/toilets...lol

 

[Brahmanyan]

About 31 lakh Central Government employees to take cleanliness pledge tomorr

Though belated, most welcome initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But this is not new for our society in south. In olden days the day used to begin ( in most of the streets) with the ladies/maids cleaning the place before their houses by sweeping and watering with cow dung mixed water, followed by decorating with Kolam (rangoli). It is a common practice that houses inside were swept twice a day. With the growth of our towns into cities,and pressure of work, we left many of our hygienic practices due to "lack of time".

During the past two decades many methods are being experimented by the Municipal corporations in regard to
cleaning , but none seemed to have succeed. The main reason is the high amount of corruption in giving the contract
for cleaning, resulting in very little amount left for the contractors to perform their job to perfection.

Let us the join the movement of "swatchcha Bharat" in what ever way possible to succeed.


Brahminyan,
Bangalore.

 

[vgane]

Though belated, most welcome initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But this is not new for our society in south. In olden days the day used to begin ( in most of the streets) with the ladies/maids cleaning the place before their houses by sweeping and watering with cow dung mixed water, followed by decorating with Kolam (rangoli). It is a common practice that houses inside were swept twice a day. With the growth of our towns into cities,and pressure of work, we left many of our hygienic practices due to "lack of time".

During the past two decades many methods are being experimented by the Municipal corporations in regard to
cleaning , but none seemed to have succeed. The main reason is the high amount of corruption in giving the contract
for cleaning, resulting in very little amount left for the contractors to perform their job to perfection.

Let us the join the movement of "swatchcha Bharat" in what ever way possible to succeed.


Brahminyan,
Bangalore.

Dear Sh Brahmanyan,

You have raised a valid point..However the practice of cleaning the house still prevails in the South..We do not cook before cleaning our house be it a villa or a flat or a tiled house or a hut..

But the outside environment has been polluted (air/water & land) by solid waste, plastic waste, hazardous waste, assorted trash & human waste etc..Till the beginning of 20th century it was mostly agricultural waste/ organic waste which are bio degradable..With increased industrialization the complexity of waste management increased manifold

Most of the waste is not bio degradable, especially plastic waste.. We do not segregate the waste properly...This is the root of the problem

Also we are not disciplined..We spit ..We use streets as open lavatories...We do not care for sanitation

 

[vgane]

Each one teach one used to a famous slogan in the 70's & 80's..Now it is each one to reach 100.. Sincerity of purpose is the key..And to start this on Oct 2 is a tribute to Mahatma on his birthday!

PM Narendra Modi's pledge for a clean India

This is the pledge that the PM leads today, 30 lakh government employees will take this pledge:

Gandhi had dreamed of an India which was not only political free but free from garbage and dirt.


Gandhi had freed our nation now it is our duty to free India from dirt.


I pledge to do my bit towards cleanliness and take out time for this.


Every year to spend 100 hours or two hours every week towards this.


I will not litter or allow anyone to litter.Starting with me, with my family , my locality , village and workplace I will work towards this.


I believe that all those countries which are clean are so because their citizens don't litter and don't allow this to happen.


With this in mind I will take this message from village to village and street to street.


I will also get 100 more people to take the pledge that I am taking . They too should spend 100 hours to do this and I will endeavor to make this happen.


I believe that my first step will help make my country clean.

 

[krish44]

In delhi, the day begins with ragpickers outside homes.

they do the job of removing anything of value from litter .

this is followed by those who work for you for a price on monthly payments to remove waste .

then there is municipal guys who take care of the small lanes outside leading to main road . they operate one per group of flats .

this is backed by a mobile collection system mostly gabage trucks of MCD who remove from a local collected area of garbage.

everyone has his area of jurisdiction strictly with turf protection.

one would refuse to do the job of other

our house garbage cleaning jobs are sold by our sweeper to another in case he wants to go away.

ministers cannot take it for photo op.lol

our dalits in sweeping job have a strong code of coduct and ethics .

today being a special day for cleaning , our home garbage cleaner has to go early to MCD office to serve his masters in MCD. Home garbage cleaner , are regular MCD

employees who do it at our homes as a part time activity. They are MCD employees also holding two jobs.lol

what more garbage removal does our govt want .

today all employees /students of schools /colleges are also participating in the activities in addition to govt employees .

some ladies were complaining that the brooms supplied for cleaning were suitable only for strong men and they are too long and heavy.

in the meantime , a difficult issue who will pay for all the brooms and cleaning materials

Do I smell a scam in this like 2G or coal. ?

all grocery stores are running out of brooms .

some are making a killing on this I suspect , raising broom prices.lol

 

[sarang]

A couple of additional points. In our town, vegetable peels and eat worthy items will be heaped in fromn of the house and will soon be consumed by roaming goats. Solid dry waste - ash, paper etc will be left on the street just before the street sweepers turn up around 9, and will be taken away. Despite high density of row houses, the streets were always clean and garbage free.

Though belated, most welcome initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But this is not new for our society in south. In olden days the day used to begin ( in most of the streets) with the ladies/maids cleaning the place before their houses by sweeping and watering with cow dung mixed water, followed by decorating with Kolam (rangoli). It is a common practice that houses inside were swept twice a day. With the growth of our towns into cities,and pressure of work, we left many of our hygienic practices due to "lack of time".

During the past two decades many methods are being experimented by the Municipal corporations in regard to
cleaning , but none seemed to have succeed. The main reason is the high amount of corruption in giving the contract
for cleaning, resulting in very little amount left for the contractors to perform their job to perfection.

Let us the join the movement of "swatchcha Bharat" in what ever way possible to succeed.


Brahminyan,
Bangalore.

 

[sangom]

I am skeptical of Narendra Modi's approach giving any lasting, beneficial results; at the end of 5 years another CAG may reveal that huge sums of Tax-payers' money have been simply wasted away in such 'slogan-raising', 'advertising' etc., which all have the hidden agenda of promoting Modi in a 'larger-than-life' mode. I am reminded of the old "India Shining" campaign of BJP in the past; did India shine? On the contrary the BJP was simply thrown out and we had ten years of "vanavaasam" under UPA!

The same thing is most likely to repeat.

When the Government and the ruling Party know very well that they can't do anything on a particular problem, but grandiose promises have been given to the people during election campaign (like, "give me 60 months and I will clean the Ganga, I will clean the whole of India, I will bring down prices and I will present Ramarajya to each one of you", etc.), the BJP seems to believe that merely by sloganeering, they can fool the people.

 

[krish44]

It is interesting to note that roads frequented by VIPs are always clean.

It deteriorates as we go from affluent to ,middle class and then to slum colonies in cities and towns .

cleanliness depends on poverty levels.

besides in villages , in terms of cleanliness we do not score very high .

one must learn from kerala how to be clean. they must be no1 in india if there is a cleanliness rating.

some states in north are basically dusty and have dry weather and many are very poor states .

when basic needs of food and shelter are not fulfilled , cleanliness does not get any priority in living.

govt can work to improve living standards than doing this type of tamashas .

who cares ? my normal help could not turn up for removing garbage as he had to service netas at MCD office early morning.

 

[prasad1]

Exposing the poor sanitary conditions in schools, only 134 CBSE schools from the State figure in the list of 2,721 educational institutions that are listed under the national school sanitation rating.


Schools are rated as per its sanitation status in five colour categories pertaining to infrastructure, institutional sustainability, environmental sustainability, health and hygiene and pedagogic aspects. The rating is part of the board’s ‘National School Sanitation Initiative’ (NSSI) that emphasises the provision of safe water and appropriate sanitation facilities as the first step in the creation of a healthy learning environment.


As per NSSI’s website, only 30 schools in Ernakulam had received the rating followed by Thrissur (16), Kannur (11) and Palakkad (10). The remaining districts could not even touch the two-digit mark in the number of schools that had applied for the sanitation rating.


About 1,360 schools are affiliated to CBSE in Kerala up to July this year, of which 130 are in Ernakulam. The Hindu has learnt that many schools were yet to apply for these ratings in view of the serious shortcomings in sanitation conditions that needs to be in tune with the guidelines prescribed in the National School Sanitation Manual.


CBSE has also not made the ratings mandatory allowing the erring managements to go scot-free.
Kerala scores poorly in sanitation rating - The Hindu

 

[prasad1]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his nationwide cleanliness campaign, the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' or 'Clean India Campaign' from the Valmiki Basti in New Delhi on Thursday. Addressing the nation at the launch, Modi asked India's 1.25 billion people to join the 'Swachh Bharat Mission' and promote it to everyone.


After paying tribute at the memorials of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries, Modi himself swept a pavement at Valmiki Basti, a colony of sanitation workers before the formal launch of the 'Clean India' drive at Rajpath. While launching the mission at Mandir Marg, he also made a surprise visit at the local police station to check on its cleanliness.


Modi said, "Today is the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhiji and Lal Bahadur Shastriji. We have gained freedom under leadership of Gandhiji, but his dream of clean India is still unfulfilled."


He added, "Swachh Bharat Campaign logo is not just a logo, through it Gandhiji is watching us and we all should clean India. I am not claiming that the newly elected government is doing everything. Be it temples, mosques, gurudwaras or any place, we must take efforts to clean our surroundings. Cleanliness is not only the responsibility of the 'safaai kaamgar', it is the responsibility of 125 crore Indians. If Indians can reach Mars at a cheap cost, can we not clean our neighbourhoods?"


Giving credit to previous governments, Modi said, "I do not make any claim that only the newly elected government has done everything. All governments have done something or the other to achieve cleanliness in the country; I greet all of them for this. Swachh Bharat mission is beyond politics. It is inspired by patriotism and not politics."
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Clean India is responsibility of all 1.25 billion Indians, says PM Narendra Modi | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis

 

[prasad1]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched his nationwide Swachh Bharat campaign on Thursday which aims to achieve a clean India by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by raising awareness of cleanliness and better sanitation.

Modi’s mission is ambitious as approximately 120 million households, almost 50% of households in India, defecate in the open, according to the 2011 Census.

According to 2012 World Bank figures, India accounts for 59% of the total 1.1 billion people in the world who defecate in the open. Open defecation is one of the primary causes of diarrhoea and also the reason for 10% of under-five deaths in India.

From 2001 to 2011, around 50 million household toilets have been built all across India to improve sanitation. Thus on an average 5 million toilets have been built every year during the above mentioned period.

Sanitation has always been one of the most important concerns of governments at the centre. In 1999, the Total Sanitation Campaign was launched taking a cue from the Central Rural Sanitation Campaign, which was launched in 1986. Central Rural Sanitation Campaign proved to be a major failure.

And even after 28 years since the launch of Central Rural Sanitation Programme and the amount of money and time spent in chasing the sanitation dream is still unfulfilled.

A total of Rs. 12,628 crore was allocated to India's sanitation program in the last five yearly budgets. And now, Modi's Swachh Bharat has extended the sanitation program for another 5 years.
According to data available, Jharkhand may pose the biggest challenge for Modi in achieving the goals of his Swachh Bharat campaign.

In 2011, Jharkhand had the highest percentage of households - 77% - without latrines. In 2001, this number was 80%. This drop of 3 percentage points is one of the lowest changes among all the states in the last decade

 

[prasad1]

India's prime minister joined millions of schoolchildren, officials and ordinary people who picked up brooms and dustpans Thursday in a countrywide campaign to clean parks, public buildings and streets.


Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the road in a poor neighborhood in New Delhi while launching the Clean India Campaign. Elsewhere in state capitals and small towns, lawmakers, school principals, factory workers and millions of common folk swept and cleared garbage, and cleaned ditches and parks.


Modi chose the birth anniversary of independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi to launch the five-year drive to clean public spaces in a bid to change India's image as one of the filthiest countries in the world.


Modi, who has made cleanliness and hygiene a major plank of his speeches since taking office in May, led thousands of New Delhi residents on a walk through newly cleaned roads in the heart of the city.


"We can't let India remain unclean any longer," Modi said in a public appeal earlier this week.


The campaign was preceded by a media blitz exhorting Indians to take a pledge to tidy up their homes and offices. Newspapers carried advertisements while television channels broadcast messages to create awareness about the sanitation and hygiene campaign.


Although Oct. 2 is usually a public holiday, Modi ordered officials in India's massive bureaucracy and schoolchildren from all the city schools to turn up and take the pledge to clean their offices, school premises and streets.


The impact was evident, with people across the country coming out in droves, armed with trash cans, rakes and brooms to take part.


Cabinet ministers, police and industry leaders have been clearing files and getting rid of clutter in their offices.


The campaign ties in with a government plan to build public toilets and end the practice of open defecation — a major challenge in a country where more than half of the country's 1.2 billion people do not have access to toilets. The plan is estimated to cost 620 billion rupees ($10.1 billion), with a major chunk of the funds coming from businesses and international aid agencies.


"If we can all come together and make this a people's movement, then I think that we can have our name among the cleanest cities and countries of the world," Modi told schoolchildren and officials while launching the mission.


View galleryIndian workers clean a train station in Mumbai, India, …
Indian workers clean a train station in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. India's prime min …
On Thursday officials and schoolchildren had to take a pledge to spend 100 hours a year cleaning their surroundings.


Government offices, especially, are notorious for their filthy state. Dusty files and dirty corridors are often breeding grounds for rats, cockroaches and other pests. In Modi's first month in office, he ordered all ministries to cull ceiling-high piles of old files, saving only the most important for reference or their historic value.


Many in India felt the cleanliness drive was long overdue.


"You walk into any government office and the filth is shocking," said Amitabha Pande, a retired bureaucrat. "Some may dismiss the campaign saying it's a symbolic ritual. But even as a symbolic gesture, it carries a lot of significance," Pande said.


In the last decade, along with India's economic boom and increasing prosperity, the output of garbage has increased manifold. However, few cities have waste management systems in place to deal with the tons of refuse that are produced each day and discarded, often on the streets.

It might be symbolic and may be grand standing, but was needed. Hope they continue after this date. I do admire Modi's effort.
Biswaji please note.

 

[V.Balasubramani]

all grocery stores are running out of brooms .

some are making a killing on this I suspect , raising broom prices.lol

Going by this, hope tomorrow, all Delhi Roads and Streets are found with piled up garbage of ‘used brooms’.lol

 

[vgane]

Good one!

 

[vgane]

Hilarious spoof! Desk top cleaning by IT employees!

As part of ?Swachh Bharat? initiative, IT companies give ultimatum to employees to clean their desktop | Faking News

 

[tbs]

hi

all grocery stores are running out of brooms .

some are making a killing on this I suspect , raising broom prices.lol

may be aam aadmi will come back with brooms...becoz broom is their symbol...lol

 

[krish44]

Aam Aadmi Party has taken to cleaning the gutters and blocked sewers filled with stagnant water outside peoples houses .

this is responsible for lack of hygiene and spread of diseases.in delhi

AAP believes in tackling the real issues .

It does not believe in tokenism and photo ops.

Modi would do well if he concentrates on economic issues besides streamlining MCD and other civic agencies to efficiently function

delhi is without a govt. since march.

election can be held only if BJP can win .

That will take a lot of time.

 

[biswa]

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

-- Lao Tzu

 

[krish44]

It is learnt that people of harijan basti were locked in their flats during Modi visit.

The ashoka leaves were deliberately thrown there for Modi to clean.

it might end up as mere tokenism .

People are waiting for better govt performance,

they have nothing much to show so far.

 

[V.Balasubramani]

delhi is without a govt. since march.

I think Delhi people are now paying the penalty for not electing a majority Government.

Hope at least in the ensuing Election they will exercise their faith and elect a particular party with majority, enabling it to form a stable Government.