Union and Delhi government ministers led cleanliness drives across the capital on Gandhi Jayanti as part of the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh participated in a drive at Vinay Marg in New Delhi, paid floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and inaugurated a paper-shredding machine for recycling discarded paper. He recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made cleanliness the centrepiece of his first Independence Day address.

Delhi Minister Ashish Sood launched the ‘Dump the Junk’ anti-littering campaign, running till October 17, engaging the city’s youth against indiscriminate waste disposal. Around 2,500 locations in Delhi were covered in drives on October 1, led by Delhi BJP president and Union Minister Harsh Malhotra.

Swachhata Hi Seva runs from September 17 to October 17 under the theme ‘Swachhata Mein Sahbhag, Swachh Bharat, Viksit Bharat’, ahead of the Swachh Bharat Mission’s 12th anniversary.

Separately, the sixth edition of the Special Swachhata Campaign for central government offices began October 2 and runs till October 31, Sardar Patel Jayanti. The Ministry of Science and Technology has set a target of over 1,500 campaign sites, while the Earth Sciences ministry aims for around 100.