Name: After Teachers' Day, PM Modi set to reinvent Gandhi Jayanti celebrations with Clean India drive
Uploaded: 2014-10-01T08:59:05+05:30
Description: The Cabinet Secretary has asked all ministries and departments to carry out a cleanliness drive in government buildings from September 25 to October 2.

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New Delhi: After lending his personal touch to September 5 Teachers' Day celebrations and making a grand pitch for 'Make in India', Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to reinvent celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. 
 
Modi had given a call for 'Swach Bharat Abhiyaan' from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15 and followed it up with a promise to clean India to NRIs in Madison Square Garden, New York. His ministers, with surprise checks and the cabinet secretariat through this order, are now ensuring that October 2 is much more than just a national holiday for government servants. 
 
The Cabinet Secretary has asked all ministries and departments to carry out a cleanliness drive in government buildings from September 25 to October 2. The Urban Development Ministry has circulated a pledge - the Swachta Shapath - which all government servants will have to take on October 2. 
 
The oath in Hindi will be administered to all government servants at 9:45 am on October 2 and would bind them to pledge 100 hours of cleaning every year. Though the cleanliness drive is being called voluntary, this order from UD makes it mandatory to keep government offices open on the forenoon of October 2. 
 
The Cabinet Secretary has sought a detailed report form government secretaries about specific plan of action to commemorate the 'Swachta Diwas'. 
 
The Prime Minister himself will visit the Valmiki Sadan near Lutyens Delhi, the India Gate Boat Club and flag off a marathon from India Gate to kickstart the Swachta Diwas. 
 
The Railway Ministry, which is taking the lead, has procured 10,000 brooms and is planning to clean 119 railway stations as part of the drive. But beyond photo ops, it remains to be seen whether the government will manage to make a visible difference by 2019 when Modi has promised a clean India to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary.

After Teachers' Day, PM Modi set to reinvent Gandhi Jayanti celebrations with Clean India drive

The Cabinet Secretary has asked all ministries and departments to carry out a cleanliness drive in government buildings from September 25 to October 2.

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After Teachers' Day, PM Modi set to reinvent Gandhi Jayanti celebrations with Clean India drive