Swachhta Hi Sewa: SDMC gears up to ensure success

New Delhi: The SDMC on Friday said that it was gearing up for launching Swachhta Hi Sewa Campaign just before the fourth anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission launched by PM Narender Modi earlier. SDMC ayor Narendra Chawala along with Chairperson, Standing Committee, Shikha Rai will kick start efforts to make tourist places and other important places clean from Qutub Minar.

The first day of the campaign will be dedicated to the cleanliness of tourist and historical places like Qutub Minar, Safdarjang Tomb and Humayun Tomb and famous temples like Iscon and Lotus temple etc.

The campaign being launched from Saturday will forcefully disseminate the messages of Swachhta, Segregation of garbage, enforcing ODF, Construction of more toilets, bringing a behavioral change activity in and around public toilets to promote usage of public and community toilets and dissuade open urination. Further, sanitation drives, Sharamdaan Activies, Rallies by School children led by the elected representatives, display of Mascot of Swachh SDMC, presentation of Nukkad Nattak and extensive use of social media will be ensured in order to bring awareness in the masses especially the persons putting up in JJ clusters and unauthorized colonies.

The SDMC Commissioner Puneet Kumar Goel chaired a meeting to of SDMC Swachhta team to pull up their socks in order to ensure success of the "Swachhta Hi Sewa" campaign in the localities coming under the jurisdiction of South Corporation. He exhorted the team members to work under mission mode so that the campaign could take shape of a forceful public movement.