As part of the Government’s
effort to accelerate efforts to achieve total sanitisation and cleanliness by
October 2, 2019 under Swacchh Bharat Mission, a Swacchh Bharat Fortnight is
being organised theme-wise by different Ministries. Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate Change organised the Swacchh Bharat Pakhwada from August
1-15, 2016 in line with International Youth Day, which fell on August 12.
Addressing a joint press briefing
here today with Secretary, Drinking Water and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran
Iyer, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Smt. Amita Prasad, said that the Eco-Clubs established under the National Green
Corps programme of the Ministry carried out various activities relating to
Swacchhta such as Safai Abhiyan at nearby commercial areas and cleaning of
public wells, ponds and rivers of the locality. Tree plantation drive/greening
neighbourhood, Nukkad ‘nataks’ were played in prayer time to convey this
message to their family & neighbourhood; volunteers took pledges on related
themes; organised rallies and poster and slogan competitions on related themes.
Apart from routine
activities, the Youth volunteers sensitise citizens and slum dwellers about
safe sanitary practices and DSWM and youth groups also took mass pledges on
mygov.in and undertook cleaning drives in various locations in cities and
uploaded pictures on swachhbharat.mygov.in. Approximately five lakh
participants undertook mass pledges on mygov.in and around 2, 500 pictures were
uploaded on swachhbharat.mygov.in.
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Sl No
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Activity
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Output
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1.
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Youth volunteers sensitise citizens
and slum dwellers about safe sanitary practices and DSWM
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* No of
awareness campaigns conducted in this regard = 3, 519
* No of participants – 1, 38, 630
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2.
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Youth groups take mass pledges on
mygov.in and undertake cleaning drives in various locations in the cities and
upload pictures on swacchhbharat.mygov.in
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* No of
participants undertook mass pledges on mygov.in – 5, 56, 500
* No of cleaning drives = 1, 36, 190
* Location of cleaning drives, temple
premises, parks, roads, institution camps, slum area, school campuses, nearby
markets, banks, hospitals, public places etc.
* No of pictures uploaded on
swachhbharat.mygov.in – 2, 650
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3.
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Details of other activities conducted
during the fortnight
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Tree plantation, water conservation,
rally programme, debate, drawing sheet theatre, awareness on low carbon
lifestyle, solid waste management.
* No of participants – 11, 24, 090
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Earlier in June, the
Ministry had launched a cleanliness drive in national parks for safe disposal
of biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste and Standard Operating Procedures
in Tiger Reserves and Zoos. In order to extend the scope of Swachhta Campaign to
include waste management concepts and recent regulations, a specific mandate of
this Ministry, special drives were launched in 10 selected Protected Areas to
sensitise the visitors on the regulatory regime for waste management. In
particular, segregation, transportation and processing of wet waste at source,
as well as segregation of bio-degradable waste from other types of wastes were
demonstrated.
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