Letter to BS: Govt's initiatives for Clean India programme are impressive

A lot remains to be done but it's been a tremendous start and the going has been great

Kudos for devoting a full page (October 2) to the 5th anniversary of the revolutionary Clean India programme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. You’ve done an excellent stock-taking of this crucial project. The project has indeed gone beyond mere tokenism and photo-ops. Notwithstanding a few misses, in totality, there are huge gains.Just the costs averted and savings illustrated in your chart are hugely impressive. That each household could save as much as Rs 70,000 on an average per annum is incredible. A possible reduction of over 5 per cent in the loss to GDP if 100 per cent households