A month-long sanitation campaign under the Swachchh Bharat Mission was launched here recently. The campaign would continue till October 23.
District Collector Md Sadique Alam attending as chief guest said a special cleanliness drive would be organised across the district on the Gandhi Jayanti. All Government offices, school premises, police stations, urban local bodies, public health centres would be cleaned up.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called for making the mission a mass movement so that Gandhiji’s dream of a ‘Clean India’ would be achieved by Gandhiji’s 150th birthday in 2019, the Collector said.
DWSM Member Secretary Tapan Kumar Rout said the mission aims to provide community and public toilets and a solid waste management facility in each town of the country. Public toilets would be constructed in tourist places, markets and bus stations in order to check open defecation.
Among others, PD DRDA Gopinath Saraka, PO OTElP Pabitra Mohan Nayak, Nabarangpur block Chairman Badabyasa Bhatra, Kosagumuda block Vice-Chairman Jogendra Swain and DIPRO Bhujang Bhusan Rao were present.