A special cleaning drive has been started by the senior officers of the Ministry of Defence under Swachh Bharat Campaign in order to encourage all fellow employees to ensure highest degree of cleanliness and hygiene at workplace. In the first phase officers upto the level of Deputy Secretary/Directors started the cleanliness campaign with brooms and dusters in their hands cleaning corridors and rooms of Sena Bhawan, here today. Some officers were also seen cleaning the office premises and tables etc. with the help of different cleaning agents.

Later on Deputy Secretary (General) addressed a seminar organised on the issue of importance of ‘cleanliness and sanitation’ where a large number of employees gathered to discuss the innovative ideas to achieve the dream of Gandhiji’s ‘Clean India’. Ministry of Defence has decided to organise a series of events in the forthcoming days under the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.