New Delhi, 2 October(Wishav Warta): The Clean India campaign had become a people’s movement and a Swachh Bharat would be realised by 125 crore Indians and not a select group of leaders or officials, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.
Launched on Gandhi Jayanti in 2014, the Modi government’s ambitious programme aims to make India clean and open defecation free by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by building individual, community and cluster toilets.
“India faces challenges but that does not mean we run away from them. We will face them and work to overcome them,” Modi said at an event in Delhi to mark the third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat mission. The campaign, he said, had instilled a positive spirit of competition as was seen the cleanliness rankings.