Various Delhi Government departments, municipal corporations and scores of other agencies across the national Capital joined the ‘Clean India’ campaign, on Thursday, with a pledge to implement the country’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive envisaged by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Delhi Chief Secretary DM Spolia led the campaign by administering oath to officers of various departments to make Delhi ‘clean’ while the civic bodies launched a massive cleanliness drive across the city to remove debris, construction waste and garbage to give a better look to the city.
Modi, earlier, launched the five-year-long nationwide drive that will cover 4,041 statutory towns which is expected to cost nearly Rs2 lakh crore. Around 2,700 students from 44 Delhi Government schools participated in the event at Rajpath where Modi launched the drive. Almost all Delhi Government departments, Delhi Police, Delhi Development Authority (DDA), New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and East, North and South Delhi municipal corporations kickstarted the campaign besides numerous other agencies.
The Chief Secretary told all Principal Secretaries, Secretaries and heads of department (HoDs) to seriously continue the cleanliness drive. He said periodic inspections will be carried out to check compliance of cleanliness. Employees of various departments as well as at district and sub-division levels were administered oath to continue the cleanliness campaign according to the Prime Minister’s direction.
The Chief Secretary inspected the Secretariat offices, corridors and toilets on various floors and asked officers to make Swachchhata Mission a grand success by making it a continuous process. Food Supplies & Consumer Affairs Commissioner Sajjan Singh Yadav also took the pledge along with the department’s officers and officials.
On this occasion, several functions were organised at Vikas Bhawan as well as in the nine district offices and 70 circle offices. Team comprising officers, officials and FPS licences of the Department, Delhi State Civil Supplies Corporation, District Consumer Forum took oath with the Prime Minister to clean up their homes, workplaces, colonies and to contribute to the success of the Mission. “The department has decided that this cleanup operation will not be a one-time exercise but will be a continuous campaign. Besides cleaning up offices, all the employees of will do a shramdaan for two hours on every Wednesday from 2 pm to 4 pm and will clean up the entire campus and surrounding areas,” Yadav said.
Divisional Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti also participated in the cleanliness drive in the revenue office and administered pledge to all the DCs, ADMs and SDMs to keep their offices clean. During the cleanliness drive, the department undertook intensive cleanliness in the offices of DCs, ADMs and GRCs offices and Nehru Yuva Kendras and offices of the Sub-Registrars, BDOs and tehsildars. Officers of PWD also participated in the cleanliness drive in large numbers. Speaking on the occasion, PWD chief appealed to the officials to take part in the task of cleaning homes and office premises and take active participation in the collective quest to make Bharat swachchh.
Officers and staff of DTIDC and DIMTS, autorickshaw drivers, coolies, shopkeepers and commuters also participated in the shramdaan. The cleanliness drive was also undertaken at 13 zonal transport offices, apart from Maharana Pratap ISBT and Kashmere Gate ISBT.