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Rajasthan state is continuously making efforts to fulfill PM Modi’s vision of Swachh Bharat. Not only organizations but people are taking initiatives for clean Rajasthan on individual basis.

For the next two weeks, Jaipurites will clean the Pink City. The campaign is started on 17 September, PM Modi’s birthday and will be ended on 2 October i.e. Gandhi Jayanti.

 

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Chief minister Vasundhara Raje launched this sanitation campaign `Swachhta Hi Seva’ from Jaipur state hangar. This state-level cleanliness campaign-`Swachhta Hi Seva’ was about to start from Jaipur’s Gator area. But due to ill health of Chief Minister of state, Vasundhara Raje, it began from Jaipur state hangar.

Under this cleanliness campaign, 5-6 wards of the city will take up cleaning campaign every day. This will be done by employing available resources with the JMC. They will remove garbage, bushes and other filth that made the city dirty said officials of Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC).

Apart from this, Rajasthan is taking several initiatives under Swachh Bharat Mission. Udaipur administration, along with a private firm, has initiated a cleanliness awareness drive and roped in school children for the pilot project. In this campaign, a new set of words with the corresponding Hindi and English alphabet has been developed containing pictures and names of different articles related to the importance of sanitation.

 

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The government offices in Rajasthan have aimed to achieve complete sanitation. As per union ministry of drinking water and sanitation data, Rajasthan has built 26.87 lakh individual toilets in rural areas under Swachh Bharat Mission in 2016-17.

An automobile mechanic named Mohammad Yusuf from Jodhpur has an innovative idea for effective disposal of waste. He suggests people to hang a dustbin to their vehicles. This is the great way to keep the city clean.

This year, it’s third anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission that falls on October 2. This campaign was started on 2nd October 2014 by Shri Narendra Modi at Rajpath in New Delhi. PM launched this campaign throughout the length and breadth of the country as a national movement. He said, “A clean India would be the best tribute India could pay to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 birth anniversary in 2019.”

 

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Raje said, “I have been promised by the mayor Ashok Lahoti that Jaipur city will be so clean that it will secure first rank.”