Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched Clean India campaign to make the country clean.

New Delhi, Oct 2/Nationalturk – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched “Swach Bharat Abhiyan” or Clean India campaign on Mahatama Gandhi, father of nation’s 145^th birth anniversary.

The Indian PM launched the massive five Clean India campaign in the capital, New Delhi. He led a cleanliness pledge at India Gate, New Delhi and himself took a broom and cleaned a portion of the road.

Accompanied by officials, the Prime Minister collected the garbage and put it in a bin. He later interacted with the children there.

Modi invited nine people to join the cleanliness drive and requested each of them to draw nine more into the initiative to make it viral.

The PM then flagged off a walkathon and walked some of the way along with participants. “This is not about Modi. Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people. This is a people’s task,” he said.

3 million employees take place of cleanliness

October 2, Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, used to be a public holiday but this year Prime Minister has ordered a full working day for government employees. He has instructed bureaucrats and ministers to lead their departments in cleaning offices, including toilets, today.

Over 3  million Indian government employees across the country took a pledge of cleanliness in various public functions organised as part of the ‘Clean India’ programme.

Modi, who came to power after his rightwing Hindu party BJP won general elections in May,  has stressed the importance of sanitation in almost all his public speeches. He vowed to make India clean by 2019, to coincide with the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The campaign will cost Indian government millions of dollars.

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