• India
  • Sep 21

Railways observes Swachhta Pakhwada

The Indian Railways is observing Swachhta Pakhwada (cleanliness drive for two weeks) from September 16 to 30, 2020. 

As part of the drive, intensive cleaning and sanitisation of stations, trains, tracks, colonies and other railway establishments is being carried out with special focus on plastic waste management.

Masks and sanitisers are also distributed. Use of information, education and communication (IEC) strategy to create awareness for keeping the railway premises clean and safe including COVID-19 related precautions and webinars are organised.

Ministry of tourism and ministry of shipping are also observing Swachhta Pakhwada during the same period. 

What is Swachhta Pakhwada?

Swachhata Pakhwada, launched in 2016, is an initiative under the Swachh Bharat Mission. 

It was started with the objective of bringing a fortnight of intense focus on the issues and practices of Swachhata by engaging central government  ministries/departments.

The idea is to include all ministries and departments through a common programme to contribute for Swachh Bharat Mission.  

An annual calendar is pre-circulated among the ministries to help them plan for the Pakhwada activities.

The ministries observing Swachhata Pakhwada are monitored closely using the online monitoring system of Swachhata Samiksha where action plans, images, videos related to Swachhata activities are uploaded and shared.

For the Pakhwada fortnight, observing ministries are considered as ‘Swachhata Ministries’ and are expected to bring qualitative swachhata improvements in their jurisdictions.

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