On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on Tuesday, the Indian Railways announced that the national transporter has planted 13.26 lakh trees over 1,300 km of its network from September 15 to October 2 this year. Railways Ministry observed ‘Swachchhta Hi Sewa Pakhwada’ across its network during the period and on Tuesday the organisation administered Swachhta (cleanliness) pledge to its personnel.
Two days each has been proposed to be devoted to Swachchh Station, Swachchh Train, Swachchh Neer, Swachchh Parisar, Swachchh Samwad, Swachchh Awareness across the entire network of Indian Railways, said a railway ministry statement.
The Ministry also organised a Satyanishtha programme which was launched as a Mission in July 2018 for Indian Railways officers and supervisors. On the occasion Chairman Railway Board Ashwani Lohani said that Satyanishtha is not a vigilance programme but it is beyond that. “It is positive attitude and right way to do the work. There are 100s of good practices happening every day in Indian Railway,” Lohani said adding that the nation is fortunate to have a Prime Minister who has been talking about cleanliness.
The programme aims at sensitising railway officers and supervisors about the need to adhere to ethics and maintain high standards of probity in public life. So far four lakhs employees have been trained at 300 places about Satyanistha.
Former Cabinet Secretary Prabhat Kumar and other board members were present whereas all the zonal General Managers were live through video conferencing.