Swachh Bharat Diwas programme will showcase India’s decade-long sanitation achievements.
New Delhi:
Marking the completion of 10 years of the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in Swachh Bharat Diwas 2024 and lay the muse stone for a number of sanitation and cleanliness initiatives on Wednesday, Jal Shakti Minister C R Paatil stated.
Addressing a press convention right here on Tuesday, Paatil stated the initiatives will even embrace initiatives value over Rs 6,800 crore, geared toward enhancing city water and sewage techniques underneath AMRUT and AMRUT 2.0, 10 initiatives value over Rs 1,550 crore targeted on bettering water high quality and waste administration in Ganga basin areas underneath Nationwide Mission for Clear Ganga and 15 Compressed Biogas (CBG) Plant initiatives value over Rs 1332 crore underneath GOBARdhan Scheme.
“The Swachh Bharat Diwas programme will showcase India’s decade-long sanitation achievements and people within the just lately concluded Swachhata Hello Seva marketing campaign. It should additionally set the stage for the subsequent part of this nationwide endeavour,” he stated.
He stated the Prime Minister will even launch and lay the muse stone for a number of sanitation and cleanliness initiatives value over Rs 9,600 crore and these embrace initiatives underneath AMRUT and AMRUT 2.0, Nationwide Mission for Clear Ganga and GOBARdhan Scheme.
Paatil stated the programme will even embrace nationwide participation from native authorities our bodies, ladies’s teams, youth organizations, and group leaders, guaranteeing that the spirit of Sampoorna Swachhata reaches each nook of India.
Underneath Swachhata Hello Seva 2024, he stated over 19.70 lakh programmes have been accomplished with public participation of greater than 17 crore folks. Transformation of round 6.5 lakh Cleanliness Goal Models has been achieved. Almost 1 lakh Safai Mitra Suraksha Shivirs have additionally been organised, benefitting over 30 lakh Safai Mitras.
Additional, over 45 lakh bushes have been planted underneath the Ek Ped Maa ke Naam marketing campaign, he stated.
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