Make cleanliness a social movement, the state will be clean only with public awareness: Vishnu Dev Sai
Raipur. Chief Minister Vishnu Dev Sai today inaugurated the state-level ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ fortnight in a program organized at Telibandha pond premises in Raipur. He administered cleanliness oath to the citizens in the program and cleaned the Telibandha pond premises by sweeping. He honored Swachhata Didi and social organizations Green Army, Bunch of Fools, Kuch Farz Hamara Bhi and Avengers Group who participated in making the city clean, as well as social worker Mrs. Shubhangi Apte. The Chief Minister flagged off the Swachhata Marathon organized on the inauguration of ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ fortnight. He also flagged off new cleanliness vehicles. MLAs Motilal Sahu, Purandar Mishra and Anuj Sharma and Mayor Shri Ejaz Dhebar also attended the program.
While inaugurating the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ fortnight in Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Shri Vishnu Dev Sai said that every person should adopt cleanliness in his daily life. There is a need to make cleanliness a social movement to make cities, villages and the state clean and beautiful. The state will become clean and beautiful only through public awareness. He congratulated and wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday today in the program. He also congratulated the people present there on Vishwakarma Jayanti.
Chief Minister Shri Sai said in his address in the program that in the year 2014, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi started the Swachh Bharat Mission in the country. Since then, assistance was given for building toilets in every house. He said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is continuously working for the poor and the deprived. Under the Jan Dhan Yojana, bank accounts of people were opened across the country. In these accounts, the amount of various schemes of the government is reaching the beneficiaries without any leakage. These amounts are also being utilized very well.
Chief Minister Shri Sai said that I salute the Swachhta Didi. They are collecting garbage from house to house and are playing an important role in cleanliness. They are separating dry and wet waste and sending it for recycling and composting. Shri Sai said that he had the opportunity to attend the Global Renewable Energy Investors Meet and Expo in Gujarat yesterday, in which important work is being done towards making the atmosphere clean.
Giving information about the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ fortnight, Secretary of Urban Administration and Development Department, Dr. Basavaraju S. said that a special campaign is being started in all the 184 urban bodies of the state from today on the theme of ‘Swabhaav Swachhata-Sanskar Swachhata’. During this, people will be made aware of cleanliness through various activities. Along with providing the benefits of government schemes to Swachhata Didi, various activities like marathon, cyclothon, Shramdaan will be conducted.
