Now, a dedicated office to monitor Swachh Abhiyan

December 05, 2014 08:15 am | Updated December 04, 2021 10:53 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

view of the porta-cabin dedicated to thecleanliness campaign inside the Delhi BJP office inNew Delhi. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

view of the porta-cabin dedicated to thecleanliness campaign inside the Delhi BJP office inNew Delhi. Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

How the city gets cleaned under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pet project – Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – will now be monitored from a porta-cabin at the Delhi BJP office on Pt. Pant Marg. The office which has been set up under a chairman will create awareness of the cleanliness drive by involving social wings in the Capital.

According to Satish Garg, chairman of the committee, the cleanliness drive is “not a political but a social movement” which he says is articulated in the pledge that was administered by Mr. Modi when he launched the event on October 2.

The committee has also prepared a PowerPoint presentation that will soon be uploaded on the Delhi BJP website which will explain to people how to make this campaign effective.

Senior leaders and former legislators have also been appointed to monitor the functioning of different civic bodies. Kulwant Rana, former BJP MLA from Rithala, will monitor North Delhi; Manoj Shokeen will oversee activities in East Delhi while Subash Sachdeva will monitor South Delhi. Sources say the BJP is working towards setting right the people’s perception of the party-run civic bodies that have been seen as failing in their duty to clean up the city. This could also involve increasing manpower to clean Delhi, he said.

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