Swachh Bharat

News If you book a venue for any social, political or family event, you will be held responsible for cleaning up the area. You may lose a certain portion of the security deposited with municipal bodies or local authorities for failing to clean up the venue within six hours after ...

News Urban local bodies in all 118 towns on banks of the river Ganga in five states will maintain the 500 metre area along the river and connecting drains as a ‘litter-free zone’. Unemployed youth in these urban areas will be hired to ensure the upkeep of the zone. The ...

News The government has decided to outsource the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan publicity campaign to a professional agency for the next four years and has earmarked nearly Rs 200 crore for this. The Swachh Bharat mission is to be implemented at a total cost of Rs 62,009 crore with a targeted ...

News PM Narendra Modi is deputing his trusted lieutenants from Gujarat to his constituency Varanasi. To clean up the famed Ghats of Ganga in Varanasi, it is now the turn of Loksabha MP from Navsari CR Patil to co-ordinate the efforts, particularly from Gujarat. Already his close aide Sudhanshu Mehta ...

News Government launched postal stamps for Swachh Bharat mission. The stamps have been designed through the participation from the people and what makes them more special is that they have been designed by children. Reason The idea behind such exercises is to reach out to the people in all possible ...

News Cleaning up and beautifying India’s spiritual capital was one of Modi’s biggest electoral promises to the people of Varanasi. A year later, it doesn’t appear to be an empty one. There may be some delay in work but transformation of Varanasi looks inevitable,’ says Praveen Kumar, an employee of ...

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (स्वच्छ भारत अभियान) is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4041 statutory towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. It is India’s biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India participated in this event. The mission ...