Supporting ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’
Employees of PLUSS Polymers, a materials research and manufacturing company, and Advit Foundation organised a cleanliness drive around their office, along with volunteers from Gurgaon Rising – in support of PM Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’. The team swept the entire area and painted it also. Through this initiative, the Company also wished to recognise and appreciate the efforts of cleanliness workers, who doggedly work every day to clean up vast areas. Mr. Samit Jain, Managing Director, PLUSS Polymers, said, “We at PLUSS would like to be engaged in ensuring sanitation at all levels. Through this endeavour we wished to be part of the national movement to support our environment. We are thankful to the entire team for supporting us in this initiative and would urge them to maintain the same level of commitment to hygiene in the future as well, for society’s welfare.” PLUSS had also recently organised an e-waste collection process across schools for a month, and ensured the safe disposal of the e-waste through an authorised e-waste recycler. The Company has successfully inspired many individuals to carry out similar awareness and collection drives in their housing societies and residential colonies.
'Swachh City'
DLF City RWAs, supported by DLF Foundation, launched a Swachh City campaign in their areas.The campaign began from Sinkanderpur village. The mission of DLF Foundation is to help in eliminating open defecation (by constructing public and community toilets), ensuring municipal solid waste management (by placing of garbage bins and running garbage collection vehicles) and the cleaning of roads and pavements and, most important of all, encouraging people to be cleanliness conscious. The DLF Foundation cleanliness drive will cover the entire DLF City, including urban slums and villages. Villagers would be able to draw water from Water-ATMs, as many urban slums and villages do not get piped water supply and the groundwater (untreated) is unfit for consumption. Awareness sessions on cleanliness will be held in schools, to encourage the spirit of social responsibility among the students, as also a sense of ownership for the Swachh City campaign.υ
'Swachh Bharat' at Ansal University
Shri Krishanpal Gurjar, Minister of State for Social Development and Empowerment launched the PM's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Ansal University. Vice Chancellor, Dr. R S Dhankar also emphasised the importance of cleanliness in community life and encouraged everyone to take active part in this campaign. He added, “There is a need to adopt the marginalised and under-privileged sections of society and help create awareness about cleanliness among these communities. Their youth need to be trained, so that they can help bring about a change in the attitude of their communities towards cleanliness. We are also planning to adopt and educate the under-privileged communities near our campus, and also encouraging our students to adopt cleanliness as a practice.” Shri Krishanpal Gurjar highlighted the importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and the commitment of the Government of India towards this noble cause of maintaining a clean and green environment. He also encouraged the students to adopt personal cleanliness and sanitation and follow the path of cleanliness in their social life, as adopted by the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiji spreading the message of keeping one’s surroundings clean, while also focusing on the cleanliness of one’s mind and body. Ansal University, in its pursuit to make the Swachh Bharat movement a great success, has put in place systems and processes that would ensure that the campus becomes ‘waste-free’.
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