New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government on Monday sent a fresh reminder to all its employees about keeping their surroundings clean. Issuing a circular to all public departments and ministries, the government asked them to take an oath on October 2, when the nation celebrates Gandhi Jayanti, to keep their environment clean.
The circular says that the government offices will be open in the forenoon on Gandhi Jayanti and the oath will be administered at 9.45 am.
It asks the public officials to take the oath in Mahatma Gandhi's name to commit 100 hours per year to cleaning and prevent the dirtying of their office premises.
'Clean India' is a principal programme of the NDA government with Prime Minister Narendra Modi making toilet construction in schools and cleaning of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna a mission.
Under the programme, Modi's ministers have been seen making surprise visits to government offices to check on the levels of cleanliness.
Recently, HRD Minister Smriti Irani was seen taking up the broom at a school to promote the campaign.
The Railway Ministry has said that as part of the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, its employees will sweep over 1,700 railway stations across India clean on October 2.
The campaign will be officially launched on Gandhi's birth anniversary with PM Modi himself wielding the broom.
In his address to NRIs at Madison Square in New York on Sunday, Modi said 'Clean India' was his target for 2019, which is when the next General Elections will be held.
"Mahatma Gandhi did so much for our country. What have we given him in return?" he asked the audience which responded with a round of thunderous applause. "Let's make a pledge that we will give back the Father of our Nation, a clean country, as he had desired. Let this be our goal for 2019," Modi said.
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