Clean India dream can be a reality: Modi

Clean India dream will become a reality only with the participation of the 125 crore citizens, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.

“Even if 1,000 Mahatma Gandhis, 1,00,000 Narendra Modis, all the chief ministers, the government at the Centre and the state governments come together, it (the target of Swachh Bharat or Clean India) cannot be achieved,” Modi said at an event to mark the third anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission.“It can only be achieved if the 125 crore people across the country join the campaign and do their bit,” he said.

“It can only be achieved if the 125 crore people across the country join the campaign and do their bit,” he said.

Modi had launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary in 2014 — a few months after he assumed office.The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has since been overseeing the implementation of the campaign in the villages across the country, with an objective to achieve clean and open defecation
free rural India by October 2, 2019.

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has since been overseeing the implementation of the campaign in the villages across the country, with an objective to achieve clean and open defecation free rural India by October 2, 2019.