PM Modi to launch Swachh Shakti 2019 from Kurukshetra on Feb.12

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New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Kurukshetra in Haryana on February 12, 2019. He will participate in Swachh Shakti 2019, a convention of Women Sarpanchs, and distribute the Swachh Shakti-2019 awards. He will visit the Swachh Sundar Shauchalay exhibition at Kurukshetra and address a public gathering. He will also inaugurate/ lay foundation stone of various development projects in Haryana.

Swachh Shakti-2019 is a national event which aims at bringing in focus the leadership role played by rural women in Swachh Bharat Mission. Women Sarpanchs and Panchs from all over the country will be attending the event. Around 15,000 women are expected to participate in this year’s Swachh Shakti event aimed at empowering the women.

The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, in association with the Government of Haryana, is organizing the Swachh Shakti-2019. Best practices from grassroot level in the rural areas for Swachh Bharat will be shared by them. The event will showcase the achievements of Swachh Bharat and the recently conducted Swachh Sunder Shauchalay (neat and clean toilet), a unique and first of its kind in the world campaign, according to a PIB release.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the Swachh Shakti programme first in 2017 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The second Swachh Shakti event, Swachh Shakti-2018, was held at Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh.