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In Pics: Narendra Modi launches Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

Wielding the broom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched the country's biggest-ever cleanliness drive that is expected to cost over Rs 62,000 crore, asserting that the “Swachh Bharat” mission is “beyond politics” and inspired by

PTI Published : Oct 02, 2014 17:12 IST, Updated : Oct 04, 2014 6:49 IST

 

"Students clean a beach on the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai"

“If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean,” he said asking people to take up the responsibility to make the mission a success. He also wondered whether the task can only be left only to the government to accomplish. 

“If we make it a public movement, we can make our country being counted as one among the cleanest nations,” he said.

 

"Arvind Kejriwal cleaning a drain at BR camp #MyCleanIndia"

The Prime Minister, who earlier in the day visited the ‘samadhi' of Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary, said while the countrymen launched a movement and achieved freedom realizing one of the slogans of Father of the nation, there is now a need to fulfil his other vision of ‘clean India'.  

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