Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh today disclosed that total revenue of over 4085 crore rupees has been earned through five dedicated annual cleanliness campaigns lasting one month each since 2021, through disposal of scrap.

 

 

Dr. Singh said that this amount of over 4,085 crores earned by selling off the scrap could be the total budget of one mega Space mission or multiple Chandrayaan Space missions. 

 

 

The Minister recalled that in his very first Independence Day address after becoming Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi had given a call for Swachhata from the ramparts of Red Fort. Soon, this turned into a mass campaign and over four lakh toilets were built in the first year itself. The Minister said that a campaign was taken up to clear the junk of redundant office files, and broken furniture from the government offices.

 

 

Dr Jitendra Singh further stated that in each successive year, a new dimension was sought to be added to this campaign. In 2021, it was decided that during the month of October beginning from 2nd October up to 31st October, there would be a dedicated Special Swachhata campaign.

 

 

The Minister observed that for the last three years or so, there was also a lot of electronic scrap in the offices which could be disposed of not only to generate revenue for the State but could also be converted through recycling to generate wealth from waste. He explained that at the end of the Special Swachhata campaign 4.0 last year, nearly 3,300 crores had been earned. An amount of over 788.53 crores was added through this year’s Special Campaign 5.0.