“Green India, clean India, our dream India”
The words convey the right motive of every Indian today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
launched country’s ever biggest cleanliness drive, “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”. It started on
Mahatma Gandhi ji’s anniversary this year. This campaign aims to accomplish the vision of a
'Clean India' by 2 October 2019, the 150th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The NSS Unit cell
of Chitkara University, Baddi has never failed to take up initiative that would benefit the
society in any it could. This time NSS organised a pledge taking ceremony.
The pledge taking ceremony was organised on 7 september 2015, after college hours in the
lawn near Chemistry Lab. The ceremony was conducted in the presence of all the cleaning
staff of the campus. . It was also organised in room no. 217 during Sankalp in which the
students of sankalp participated along with NSS volunteers. The ceremony was also attended
by NSS programme coordinator Ma’am Pooja Dhiman. The event was led by President Punit
Jain and Vice President Ritika Goyal. Around 50 volunteers participated in the ceremony
along with the others.
At first all the cleaning staffs of the campus was invited to the location for pledge taking
ceremony regarding “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan”. They were organised into proper lines after
which the pledge taking ceremony started. By putting their hand forward, they took the oath.
They repeated every word of the pledge with utmost determination to work in order to bring a
change in the society that we all desire of. The Sankalp students also repeated every word of
pledge with innocence and determination.
The aim of the mission is to cover all the rural and urban areas of the country to present this
country as an ideal country before the world. The mission has targeted aims like eliminating
the open defecation, converting insanitary toilets into pour flush toilets, eradicating manual
scavenging, complete disposal and reuse of solid and liquid wastes, bringing behavioural
changes to people and motivate health practices, spreading cleanliness awareness among
people, strengthening the cleanliness systems in the urban and rural areas as well as creating
user friendly environment for all private sectors interested for investing in India for
cleanliness maintenance.
After taking oath everyone was made aware about ways to keep our surroundings clean. They
were suggested ways by which a positive change regarding cleaning could be brought up in
the society. They were told that at first we need to change our mentality toward cleaning. We
need to put off our egos and should start working as a team for a cleaner and greener India for
which every Indian aspires off.
They were satisfied by every word that was told to them and they promised to work for the
same. The staff was provided with sweets as a mark of a positive start for a big goal. The
event successfully ended with smiles on everyone’s face.
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