30 January, 2014

National Cleanliness Day: This responsibility for environmental cleanliness is highlighted by the observation of National Cleanliness Day on 30th January every year in India. The day calls to maintain high standards of cleanliness in our homes, work place, road/streets and public places. Cleanliness is an inevitable part of everyone's life. Cleanliness is the absence of dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells and garbage. Most public places in India, be it a street, a lane, a government office, a railway station, a bus station, a hospital, or a public park, look filthy. The offensive sites of littered garbage, overflowing sewage, defaced walls, people in hordes easing out in the public and water logged areas dot our city and country. A clean environment is a pleasure to live in. Personal Cleanliness & Personal Hygiene would be meaningless if we are living in an unclean environment. Therefore, cleanliness should begin from our own surroundings and even as we clean our abode daily, we should spare some effort to keep clean our city, roads, office premises & public places as well. It is the duty of all to keep the environment clean and healthy. The cleanliness of a city, village or an entire town begins from the cleanliness of individual homes. Also, India needs to focus on cleanliness to claim a respectable place in the eyes, hearts, minds and souls of its countrymen as well as foreigners.

'Cleanliness' is an inevitable part of everyone's life. Cleanliness is the absence of dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells and garbage. Most public places in India, be it street, a lane, a government office, a railway station, a bus station, a hospital, or a public park, look filthy. The offensive sites of littered garbage, overflowing sewage, defaced walls, people in hordes easing out in the public and water logged areas dot our city and country.

A clean environment is a pleasure to live in. Personal Cleanliness & Personal Hygiene would be meaningless if we are living in an unclean environment. Therefore, cleanliness should begin from our own surroundings and even as we clean our abode daily, we should spare some effort to keep clean our city, roads, office premises & public places as well. It is the duty of all to keep the environment clean and healthy. The cleanliness of a city, village or an entire town begins from the cleanliness of individual homes. This responsibility for environmental cleanliness is highlighted by the observation of National Cleanliness Day on January 30 th in India. The day calls to maintain high standards of cleanliness in our homes, work place, road/streets and public places. India needs to focus on cleanliness to claim a respectable place in the eyes, hearts, minds and souls of its countrymen as well as foreigners.

Events- Sanitation campaigns are held by panchayats and villages. Debates, painting, essay and quiz competitions are organized for the school children under the campaign. Individual toilets are constructed in villages to make the State completely free of open defecation. More measures are taken for the management of solid waste and dirty water. Solutions to garbage segregation, vermin-composting of organic waste, sanitary landfills for inorganic waste, drains to channel water, waste water treatment and reuse, biogas for cooking and regular cleaning of the village are advised. The Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) Government of India has initiated an incentive scheme for fully sanitized and open defecation free gram panchayats, blocks, and districts called the ‘Nirmal Gram Puraskar’. Students and educational institutions play a major role in generating mass awareness.