SWACHHATA HI SEVA (SHS) 2019

Sept. 13, 2019

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019, a massive countrywide awareness and mobilization campaign on Swachhata at Mathura.

About:

  • Swachhata Hi Seva” (“cleanliness is service”) campaign has been launched to push for greater public participation in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan which was launched on October 2, 2015.

  • SHS 2019 has put special focus on ‘plastic waste awareness and management.’ This year’s Swachhata Hi Seva will see
    • mass awareness generation activities on plastic waste management between 11th September to 1st October,

    • nationwide Shramdaan for plastic waste collection and segregation on 2nd October, and

    • recycling and effective disposal of the collected plastic waste from 3rd October to Diwali, 27th October 2019. 



Source : PIB