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Big Swachh Bharat Example: PM Modi picks up litter during an inspection at Delhi’s ITPO (VIDEO)

Modi launched the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on October 2, 2014, when he became the Prime Minister for the first time and to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set an example of how his government’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ should be carried out at an individual level. Modi was seen picking up litter from the road in front of a large colourful mural of traditional arts, during an inspection of the ITPO tunnel in central Delhi.

Union Minister, Piyush Goyal shared a video of the Prime Minister and tweeted, “Even during inauguration of the ITPO tunnel, PM Narendra Modi ji made it a point to pick up garbage and ensure cleanliness.”

“This project had to undergo several obstacles including Covid…And then there’s no dearth of people in our country who knock on the judiciary’s door, disrupt the process of such projects but we made it through,” PM Modi said at the launch of the Pragati Maidan Integrated Transit Corridor.

ITPO or The India Trade Promotion Organisation in central Delhi’s Pragati Maidan falls under the Commerce and Industry Ministry which shows the excellence achieved by the country in the fields of trade and commerce.

Modi launched the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on October 2, 2014, when he became the Prime Minister for the first time and to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birth anniversary.

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The mission focuses on speeding up the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage. Moreover, all villages, gram panchayats, districts, states, and Union Territories have been declared to conduct free open-defecation by building over 100 million toilets in rural India under this programme.

Now, the programme is moving towards the next phase called ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ (Grameen) where reinforcement of open-defecation free behaviour will be carried out, and focus will be made on providing interventions for safe management of solid and liquid waste in villages.