Punjab on Thursday rolled out intensive cleanliness campaign, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with all districts starting the week-long campaign that will last from September 25 to October 2. A initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan aimed at creating mass awareness and inculcating lasting behavioral changes of maintaining hygiene in people.
For achieving the desired results, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has directed all Government officials to ensure that guidelines of campaign are adhered to and it was made a grass root movement.
Deputy Chief Minister. Sukhbir Badal said that the Punjab Government was committed to maintain State’s cleanliness by leaving everlasting imprints on the minds of people to make cleanliness a way of life.
“During the week-long celebrations, all the districts will undertake mass awareness exercises for cleaning work places, streets, roads, markets, railway stations, bus terminals, monuments, ponds, parks and other public places,” he said.
All urban local bodies have been directed to ensure that garbage from households and collection points is properly lifted and disposed to designated places.
The programme, to be continued till the culmination of 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi in 2019, aimed at creating a clean India by 2019 with people’s participation.