On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sanghrahalaya (IGRMS) organised an oath ceremony and a street play on ‘Swachch Bharat’ campaign at Veethi Sankul Exhibition Area. On this occasion, all employees of Manav Sangrahalaya gathered and paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Director, Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav, Arun Kumar Shrivatava administered a pledge to make India clean.
The pledge says “I will devote 100 hours per year that is two hours per week to voluntarily work for cleanliness. I will neither litter nor let others litter. I will encourage 100 others take this pledge which I am taking today”. After the pledge and street play all employees and officers participated in the cleanliness drive and cleaned the museum premises.
After the pledge a street play was organised by Sangrahalaya with support from Umang Social and Cultural Group. A play giving the message of cleanliness was performed at Sangrahalaya premises. The play was performed at all platforms of Habibganj Railway station, on this occasion Rajeev Choudhary (DRM, Bhopal Division, WCR) was present with other senior officials of West Central Railway.
He awarded a cash prize of Rs 2,000 to Umang Shridhar (Secretary, Umang Social and Cultural Group) and another cash prize of Rs 2,000 children of Umang Social and Cultural Group and requested to continue the cleanliness awareness drive. The children from ‘Umang’ gave the message of cleanliness in all 18 coaches of Shatabdi Express. The last performance of the play was at Bhopal Railway Station.
After all presentations of the street play the national anthem was sung. The street play was performed at various important places of the state capital like — Ekant Park, MANIT Square, Nehru Nagar, Manav Sangrahalaya, Sayadri Complex, Jawahar chowk, New Market, MP Nagar and DRM Office.