Clean Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai: Guardian Minister Urges BMC To Initiate Campaign

To initiate, "Swachh Mumbai Nirogi Mumbai" (Clean Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai) campaign and keep city clean, the city Guardian Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha has written a letter to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal.

In the letter, dated August 29, he also mentioned that before the Gandhi Jayanti, which is celebrated on October 2, the civic body should initiate the campaign on a war footing level.

"It is important to keep India clean while keeping the city clean. To guide us in this direction Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the ambitious scheme 'Swachh Bharat' on Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary. From railway stations to roads, from toilets to hospitals, the work of changing the face was done all over India through this campaign," he mentioned.

"This campaign is taking the form of a revolution through public participation. In order to widen the scope of this further, we should implement the initiative 'Swachh Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai' for the Mumbai municipal area under Swachhta Bharat Abhiyan, because it is necessary to convince the public that epidemic diseases are spread due to uncleanliness, so that the importance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Swachh Bharat' campaign will be further highlighted," Lodha added in his letter.

Lodha then wrote that, "Under the initiative 'Swachh Mumbai, Nirogi Mumbai', we are cleaning public toilets, public bus stands, grounds, parks, market premises and also sorting wet and dry waste. In line with this, in the Guardian Minister's Help Desk, I have been receiving repeated requests for waste boxes for sorting wet and dry waste from time to time by small local residents' societies. So we should distribute waste bins to the housing societies as per the demand in a centralized manner at our level and you will get all the necessary support for that from us."

"October 2 is the birth anniversary of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi, before that our initiative 'Swachh Mumbai, Nirogi Mumbai' should be implemented on a war footing and we should fulfill the various things required for this," he concluded.