Swacch Bharat Mission is completing two years tomorrow. The programme was launched on Gandhi Jayanti in 2014. <br/><br/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi had gave a clarion call on Independence Day from the ramparts of Red Fort to make India clean by 2019 which will coincide with 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. <br/><br/>Mr Modi had said that Cleanliness and sanitation were very close to the heart of Mahatma Gandhi and it is the social responsibility of every citizen to help fulfill Gandhiji's vision of Clean India. <br/><br/>AIR correspondent reports that <br/>Several programmes are being organised to mark the occcasion. Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu will flag off a swachatta rally at India Gate. <br/><br/>Mr Naidu along with Communication Minister Manoj Sinha will release a special stamp on Swachh Bharat. Mr Naidu will also felicitate makers of short film on Swachh Bharat.<br/><br/>Home Minister Rajnath Singh will administer Swachhata pledge at Central Park in Connaught Place in New Delhi. Other Union Ministers will also participate in various cleanliness drives. <br/><br/>35 districts including Porbandar, birth place of Mahatma Gandhi and about one lakh villages will be declared Open Defecation Free. Community led mass cleaning campaigns will be organised all over the country. <br/><br/>In run up to the event, several programmes like Cleanliness week, Swachhata Pakhwada and India Sanitation conference were organised. Over the two years, the mission has gathered pace and momentum and it has become a mass movement.
News On AIR | October 1, 2016 8:03 PM
Swacch Bharat Mission to complete two years tomorrow