PM Modi takes up spade, begins Ganga clean-up drive
Clad in kurta-pyjama, Modi, 64, reached the riverbank at around 8:40 am and offered prayers. Then he took up the spade to begin the Ganga clean-up drive.
PM Modi also nominated nine more people to take the Swachh Bharat (Clean India mission) forward.
The new prominent names who have been tagged by the PM on Saturday are Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Chancellor of Chitrakoot Handicapped University Swami Ram Bhadracharya, Bhojpuri actor Manoj Tiwari, writer Manu Sharma, cricketers Mohd Kaif and Suresh Raina, Padma Shri Professor Devi Prasad Dwivedi, television actor and comedian Raju Shrivastava and singer Kailash Kher.
Earlier when he had kicked off the Swachh Bharat campaign he had nominated nine key personalities to join the cleanliness drive. Modi had launched the Clean India mission on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2 this year.
The PM Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government had vowed to prioritise cleaning the Ganga and set up a separate ministry headed by Uma Bharati for the said mission.
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