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New Delhi : Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on December 7, 2019, flagged off special plogging awareness drive rally in Delhi Cantt as part of Swachhta Pakhwada to create awareness against single use plastic in the country. He himself took part in the event by picking waste material from the area. More than 3,000 people including schoolchildren participated in the plogging and collected sizeable single use plastic waste.
Rajnath said Mahatma Gandhi had equated spitting with crime. He further said that Mahatma Gandhi raised an army of satyagrahis, the same way Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the army of swachhagrahis. In a very short span of time Swachh Bharat has become a mission, he said and added more than 700 districts in the country have become Open Defecation Free (ODF). Ten crore sixty lakh toilets have been made in the country. Now, it is the turn of reducing the single use plastic. Rajnath said, “Let us create an awareness against the use of single use plastic.”
Rajnath appreciated ‘nukkad natak’ performed by a local theatre group. He also administered Swachhta pledge to the people present in the event, according to a PIB release.
Minister of State for Defence Shripad Naik appealed the people present at the event to stop using single use plastic and said, “If people start carrying bags with them, use of single use plastic may gradually reduce. By doing this we will be able to save our future generations from environment related problems.”