New Delhi [India], October 5 (ANI): As a part of the Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS), 2023 marketing campaign, the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation (DoWR) together with National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) organized a cleanliness drive at Chhath Ghat, ITO on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti.
Around 1,000 folks joined the drive and greater than 6,000 kg of waste was collected.
According to an official assertion from the Ministry of Jal Shakti, “Taking inspiration from Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s clarion call for ‘Ek Tareekh Ek Ghanta Ek Saath’, and as part of the Swachhata Hi Seva, 2023 campaign, the Department of Water Resources, DoWR along with NMCG organized a cleanliness drive at Chhath Ghat, ITO on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti.”The DoWR Secretary Debashree Mukherjee, Ministry of Jal Shakti, Director General of National Mission for Clean Ganga G. Asok Kumar together with senior officers participated within the cleanliness drive that started at 10 AM on October 1.
As per the official assertion, the Swachhata Pledge was administered to the gathering and contributors had been additionally sensitized concerning the significance of unpolluted rivers by nukkad natak on the ghat. Around 1,000 folks joined the drive and greater than 6,000 kg of waste was collected.
Debashree Mukherjee mentioned that the involvement of communities is essential to the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ marketing campaign and several other NGOs, youth teams, and kids collaborating within the occasion had been inspiring.
She added that the organizations below the Ministry of Jal Shakti had been collaborating on this occasion, led by NMCG.
Asok Kumar, DG, of NMCG, mentioned that the occasion was organized as a part of the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ marketing campaign and that it will culminate on Gandhi Jayanti which was noticed as Swachh Bharat Divas throughout the nation, mentioned the assertion.
He knowledgeable that cleanliness drives, nukkad nataks, cultural occasions and so forth. below Namami Gange and Arth Ganga had been organized up to now few days alongside the ghats of River Ganga and its tributaries within the Ganga Basin states as a part of this marketing campaign to make cleanliness a mass motion.
“It is the duty of each one of us to keep our rivers and water bodies clean,” he mentioned. Kumar additionally mentioned that that is additionally a part of the Clean Yamuna marketing campaign being run by NMCG for the 22 km Delhi stretch from the previous one-and-a-half 12 months.
The official assertion mentioned that organizations of the Ministry of Jal Shakti together with the National Water Mission, Central Water Commission, Central Groundwater Board, CSMRS, NWDA and so forth. additionally took half within the cleanliness drive.
Officials from Delhi Jal Board (DJB), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), volunteers from NGOs Tree Craze, YSS, SYA, YPF, FOY, Paryavaran Sanrakshan, Bharatiyam, Saksham Bhoomi Foundation, college and school college students, volunteers from Ganga Vichar Manch additionally joined palms with NMCG to make the occasion profitable, it added.
The focus throughout the drive remained on releasing the ghat from any form of strong waste. An identical cleanliness drive was additionally organised by NGOs at Kalindi Kunj ghat in South Delhi, it mentioned.
Similar occasions had been additionally organised alongside the ghats of River Ganga and its tributaries alongside the Ganga Basin. Ganga Praharis, Ganga Mitras, Ganga Doots, college students, officers from district administration, native folks and so forth. took half within the cleanliness drives as a part of the Swachhta Hi Sewa marketing campaign, mentioned the assertion.
The occasions had been all through the interval of the Swachhta Hi Sewa marketing campaign in states by District Ganga Committees, the district-level arm of NMCG. Ganga Task Force (GTF) additionally participated within the occasions Prayagraj, Varanasi and Kanpur, it mentioned.
Swachhta Hi Sewa drives had been additionally undertaken on the Namami Gange Sewage Treatment Plants (Nirmal Jal Kendras) premises within the Ganga Basin by the executing companies, mentioned the assertion. (ANI)