India's four million federal government staff and millions of schoolchildren have taken up brooms and dusters to spearhead a drive to clean up the country.
The nationwide campaign has been launched on 2 October, the birthday of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
The day is traditionally celebrated as a national holiday, but this year civil servants and pupils in government-run schools do not have time off. Instead they are busy sweeping away the dirt and dust in their offices and schools - and even cleaning the toilets.
And many of the civil servants are not happy about it.
The cleanliness drive is being led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi - on Thursday morning he was seen with a broom in hand, sweeping clean a part of a street in Valmiki Nagar, the largest sweeper colony in the capital, Delhi, while launching the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign).
In his independence day address to the nation on 15 August, Mr Modi spoke of how he was bothered by the all-pervasive filth around him. Full story...
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The nationwide campaign has been launched on 2 October, the birthday of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.
The day is traditionally celebrated as a national holiday, but this year civil servants and pupils in government-run schools do not have time off. Instead they are busy sweeping away the dirt and dust in their offices and schools - and even cleaning the toilets.
And many of the civil servants are not happy about it.
The cleanliness drive is being led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi - on Thursday morning he was seen with a broom in hand, sweeping clean a part of a street in Valmiki Nagar, the largest sweeper colony in the capital, Delhi, while launching the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign).
In his independence day address to the nation on 15 August, Mr Modi spoke of how he was bothered by the all-pervasive filth around him. Full story...
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