“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
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| Honorable Prime Minister of India |
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national
level campaign by the Government of India, launched
by the Honorable Prime
Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi on 2nd October 2014 on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, with the
noble cause to clean the surroundings in which we
citizens dwell. This campaign aims to accomplish the vision of 'Clean India' by 2nd
October 2019, 150th birthday of Mahatma
Gandhi and is expected to cost over Rs 62,000 crores.
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| Our team |
Moving on the parallel tracks of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, NSS IIT
Roorkee organized an event of cleaning the surroundings of the institute.
Students swept inside as well as outside the campus, bringing awareness among
people about cleanliness.
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| Cleaning outside the campus |
Dr. Pradipta Banerji, our
Honorable Director along with Prof. (Dr.) S.P. Gupta, the Honorable Deputy
Director and Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Nauriyal, the Dean of Student Welfare,
inaugurated the campaign by paying homage to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma
Gandhi.
The director himself
swept the streets near the main building and shortly all students followed him. According to him, a clean environment
is a human right like any other right. It is, therefore, a part of our social
responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on, is as healthy
if not healthier, than we found it”
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| Cleaning with all precautionary measures |
The students were provided with
plastic gloves and huge brooms and hence, all contributed for a cleaner India.
Almost every nook and corner of IIT Roorkee campus was cleaned by them including the
organic waste like leaves or packets of food articles, they picked almost everything. At the
same point of time, they never felt ashamed or embarrassed to do so, instead
the students were elated by such an initiative.
"Drops of water
make the mighty ocean." In the same way, our small contributions can make
huge differences. Such
small acts of keeping our own surroundings clean when multiplied by 121
million Indians can transform India into a clean and green country. A clean
country attaches to itself a disease free world and increase in tourism.
It needs just some logical thinking to come out of the
assumption that others would come and become our scavengers, instead just
remember the Gandhi quote and be your own scavenger.
"Everyone
must be his own scavenger." - M. K. Gandhi
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