PM Modi praises Jaggi Vasudev for carrying forward Swachh Bharat in Tamil Nadu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday lauded Isha Foundation founder Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev for carrying forward the Swachh Bharat Movement in Tamil Nadu and asked its volunteers to further strengthen it.

Interacting with Sadhguru via video conference after the launch of the "Swachhata Hi Seva" campaign, the Prime Minister said he himself had seen Sadhgurus dedicated efforts to strengthen the campaign by keeping rivers clean.

Modi said he believed that Sadhgurus blessings would strengthen and further purify this sense of service.

"Swatch Bharat is not a movement by a certain government. This is not even the Prime Minister's Movement. This is the movement of Bharat, this is the movement of every citizen. Tremendous things have happened (on cleanliness), thanks to the Prime Minister," Sadhguru said.

He said the Isha Foundation would form citizens' committees in 37 municipalities and 12 city corporations to support the administration in achieving cleanliness and hygiene for everyone. A total of 10,000 volunteers in Chennai would be roped in to make their areas clean, he said.

To mark the launch of the campaign on behalf of the Foundation, its volunteers in Puducherry have started with a cleaning drive at the Vedhapureshwarar Shiva Temple in the Union Territory, he said.

The 'Swachhata Hi Seva' movement aims at generating greater public participation towards Swachhta (cleanliness) and is being organized in the run-up to the fourth anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission, on October 2, 2018, which will also mark the commencement of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi.