On the birthday of Mahatma Ghandi this week, the new prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, launched the Clean India movement by picking up a broom and dust pan, and leading thousands of citizens into the streets.
Modi has made cleanliness and hygiene a major plank in recent speeches since taking office
With sanitation a big public health problem, millions of schoolchildren, officials and ordinary people followed Modi’s lead, cleaning up garbage heaps, toilets and ditches.
(READ the story from the AP News)
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