Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Oct 6 : Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh stated right here right now that the just lately concluded 75-day lengthy Seashore Cleansing marketing campaign’s success vindicates the “entire of Authorities” method.
Chairing a gathering to assessment the just lately concluded “Swachh Sagar, Surakshit Sagar” marketing campaign from fifth July to seventeenth September which is noticed as “Worldwide Coastal Clear Up Day”, Dr Jitendra Singh acknowledged the assist of over a dozen Union Ministries for its grand success, whereas the nodal Ministry was the Ministry of Earth Sciences headed by him.
The Minister thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who in his newest “Mann ki Baat” broadcast, talked about the “Swachh Sagar – Surakshit Sagar” marketing campaign and the mass public participation in it. Modi had congratulated all of the individuals who took half in lots of cleanliness associated packages for all the two and a half months, he stated..
Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr M. Ravichandran, Secretary, DARPG, V.Srinivas, DG, Coast Guard, V.S.Pathania, Shri Gopal Arya from Paryavaran Sanrakshan Gatividhi and representatives of Atmosphere Ministry and senior officers joined the assessment assembly.
Dr. Jitendra Singh stated that India’s 7500 km-long shoreline will play an important position in shaping up India’s Imaginative and prescient @ 2047 and added that we have to leverage our underutilised oceanic assets in an effort to advance the financial development of our nation. The Minister stated, a high-level workforce constituted to organise yr lengthy actions on coastal clear up may even coordinate in India’s Deep Sea Mission.
Referring to the Swachh Bharat Mission launched on 2nd October, 2014 after the Prime Minister’s announcement from the Purple Fort throughout his first Independence Day deal with on fifteenth August, 2014, Dr Jitendra Singh stated, the entire of presidency method has mixed with entire of nation method to make swachhata a real Jan Andolan by bringing concerning the largest behavioural change on the planet. He stated, the SBM’s emphasis on behavioural change in rural sanitation on the grassroots degree additionally led to rigorous verification and sustainability of the advantages accrued to rural communities.
Dr Jitendra Singh lauded the position of the Ministry of Earth Sciences in executing such a mammoth process of simultaneous coastal clean-up and sea seashore cleansing throughout all the ocean seashores alongside 7,500 km lengthy shoreline of India. The Minister identified that Governors, Chief Ministers, Union Ministers, MPs, movie artists and celebrities participated in seashore clean-up actions together with lakhs of volunteers from all walks of life. The Minister knowledgeable that greater than 45 Deputy Commissioners/District Magistrates from 9 Coastal States made particular efforts to make the marketing campaign a grand success.
Dr Jitendra Singh notably thanked the cooperation from the Ministries of Atmosphere, Forest and Local weather Change, Jal Shakti, Well being and Household Welfare, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Exterior Affairs, Info and Broadcasting, organisations and associations like Nationwide Service Scheme (NSS), Indian Coast Guard, Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority (NDMA), Seema Jagran Manch, SFD, Paryavaran Sanrakshan Gatividhi (PSG), together with different social organisations and academic establishments are collaborating within the clean-up marketing campaign.