Chief of Army Staff Gen. Dalbir Singh and Indian Army personnel took a pledge on Thursday for a 'Swachh Bharat' following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's official launch of the 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' earlier in the day.
Army personnel pledged to learn new cleaning techniques and spend two hours a week for cleaning.
They also vowed to start a cleaning drive from their own homes, neighbourhoods, villages, offices, while saying that neither would they litter themselves nor let anyone else do so.
The pledge was taken with a motive and a hope that these steps would make India clean.
Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Robin K Dhowan also wielded a broom as part of the Swachh Bharat drive.
Politicians across the country were seen holding brooms and wiping roads to spread the message of keeping India clean and healthy.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially launched 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' at Rajpath today. On the occasion, the Prime Minister also administered a cleanliness pledge to the people. Later, he flagged off a walkathon as part of the campaign.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan includes sweeping, removal of garbage, debris and unauthorised encroachments from roads, markets and residential places.
The campaign is aimed at making India a clean country by 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
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