While announcing about the funding assistance on Thursday, union minister Nitin Gadkari said, ‘An amount of Rs 20 lakh, which would be given to every village to achieve the clean India target by 2 October 2019, would remain deposited in every Gram Panchayat for cleaning purposes.’
Gadkari, who was talking to media after administering the cleanliness pledge to all the officers and staffs of the ministries, also wielded broom in the rural development office premises and undertook cleaning operation of the garbage. The minister has already announced that his ministries will spend Rs 1,34000 crore for construction of about 11.11 crore toilets in the country in five years, besides taking other cleanliness measures.
Earlier, speaking at India Gate lawns, from where the prime minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the union Minister said that Swachhta mission should not only remain a government campaign, but this must be converted into a mass movement to the country an open defecation free country in five years.
Gadkari, who was talking to media after administering the cleanliness pledge to all the officers and staffs of the ministries, also wielded broom in the rural development office premises and undertook cleaning operation of the garbage. The minister has already announced that his ministries will spend Rs 1,34000 crore for construction of about 11.11 crore toilets in the country in five years, besides taking other cleanliness measures.
Earlier, speaking at India Gate lawns, from where the prime minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, the union Minister said that Swachhta mission should not only remain a government campaign, but this must be converted into a mass movement to the country an open defecation free country in five years.