Reuters
On October 2, Modi launched the ambitious Swachh Bharat campaign that
was joined by Chief Ministers, lawmakers and prominent personalities
from various fields.
By Pti, By PTI,www.thehindu.com
- October 27th, 2014
UNICEF on Monday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Swachh Bharat’ mission and offered its support to the government to successfully implement the programme, particularly in rural India. “We are really
welcoming this initiative....We are really putting everything we can to
support this initiative,” UNICEF India Representative Louis-Georges
Arsenault said in New Delhi. Noting that hygiene
and sanitation in many Indian districts, particularly in Uttar Pradesh
are “very weak,” Arsenault expressed hope that the new initiative would
help spread awareness among people about hygiene in their surroundings.
He was reacting to a question on UNICEF’s role in cleanliness and the new initiative of the government. UNICEF officials said
that the organisation’s long standing support for improving water
supply, sanitation and hygiene stems from a firm conviction and based on
sound evidence that these are central to ensuring the rights of
children.
UNICEF supports the
Centre and State Governments in developing and implementing a range of
replicable intervention models for sanitation, hygiene and water supply.
On October 2, Modi
launched the ambitious Swachh Bharat campaign that was joined by Chief
Ministers, lawmakers and prominent personalities from various fields,
along with lakhs of countrymen in a drive that is expected to cost
nearly Rs, 2 lakh crore.
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