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Top UNICEF official praises Swachh Bharat Mission as ‘game-changer’
Top UNICEF official praises Swachh Bharat Mission as ‘game-changer’
By Rohan Agarwal :
NEW DELHI,
THE ‘Swachh Bharat Mission of the Modi Government is an ‘example-setting programme for the world’ and a ‘game-changer’ as it altered the way Indian society behaved towards cleanliness, a top official of the UNICEF said. In an interview to IANS, UNICEF India’s Sanitation (WASH) chief Nicolas Osbert showered praise on the programme announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his maiden Independence Day address in 2014 from the ramparts of Red Fort.
The Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign was launched by the Modi Government on Gandhi’s birth anniversary on October 2, 2014. The components of the Government’s flagship scheme include the construction of household toilets, community and public toilets and solid waste management. “It caught us all by surprise, us, the international crowd, the development crowd.
Look at India, a very powerful country, going for space conquest, having such powerful industries, such strong research on the robotics and on IT and as much as India was dreaming of all of these, I think, in August 2014, saying that we are going to clean this mess, so we have a strong base for our development, was a good move,” Osbter said.
