Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday called upon the people to make Bhubaneswar the cleanest city in the country.
“This city is ours and it is our responsibility to keep it clean. At present, Bhubaneswar ranks ninth in the country’s cleanliness ranking. If all of us fulfil our individual responsibilities properly, our city will become the cleanest and most beautiful in the country and secure the first position,” Majhi said.
The Chief Minister was speaking after participating in the ‘Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath’ cleanliness drive organised by the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) at Khandagiri.
Urging every citizen to become conscious about the cleanliness of the city, Majhi said that while keeping own homes, courtyards, lanes and compounds clean, people need to expand the outlook a little further. The responsibility of keeping the road in front of a house and colony clean also rests with all.
The Chief Minister advised people to join hands with sanitation workers, segregate wet and dry waste at home and hand it over regularly to the cleaning vehicles, and also prevent others from littering on the roads.
Recalling that Mahatma Gandhi had given the highest importance to cleanliness even before Independence, the Chief Minister said that from 2014 onwards, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully realised this dream of Gandhiji by transforming it into a widespread people’s movement through the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ campaign.
Majhi said the special ‘Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath’ programme under the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is an innovative and commendable effort to connect the entire society with cleanliness.
