New Delhi, 01 October (H.S.): Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday participated in the ‘Ek Din, Ek Ghanta, Ek Saath’ campaign organised across the country under the ‘Swachhata Hi Seva Campaign 2026’ at Kamla Nehru Ridge. During the programme, the Chief Minister joined Delhi University students, teachers and local residents in voluntary labour (shramdaan) as part of the cleanliness drive and conveyed the message of public participation in building a clean and beautiful Delhi.

The Chief Minister said that following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal, people across the country were undertaking various forms of voluntary service. During the designated period from 8 am to 9 am, thousands of people in different parts of Delhi also participated in service activities and contributed to cleanliness and other initiatives.

Rekha Gupta said cleanliness should not be viewed as an activity limited to a single day or a particular campaign, but should become a regular habit and a collective responsibility. She said whenever a person throws waste on a road or in a public place, they should consider how such seemingly minor negligence affects people in the surrounding area and the wider environment.

She said it was essential to develop a sense of responsibility and sensitivity towards cleanliness among every individual. While sanitation workers must perform their duties with full responsibility, citizens also have a duty to ensure that cleanliness is maintained after an area has been cleaned.

The Chief Minister said that both the administration and citizens must play their respective roles to make the sanitation system effective. Sanitation workers and the agencies concerned should ensure regular cleaning, while citizens must develop the habit of not littering public places and maintaining cleanliness.

Rekha Gupta said that her participation in the cleanliness drive at Kamla Nehru Ridge and in the Delhi University area alongside students, teachers and citizens was an example of collective spirit. She said the participation of young people could play an important role in transforming such campaigns into broader people’s movements.

She appealed to the people of Delhi to make maintaining cleanliness in their surroundings a part of their daily routine. Keeping roads, lanes, parks, markets and public spaces around residential areas clean is not merely the responsibility of the administration, but a shared responsibility of every citizen.

The Chief Minister said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleanliness had become a strong movement driven by public participation. In the same spirit, the government and citizens would have to work together continuously to make Delhi clean, beautiful and developed.

She said one hour of voluntary labour would be meaningful only if it was followed by the sustained habit of maintaining cleanliness throughout the year. She emphasised that collective participation, civic responsibility and regular sanitation practices were essential to giving lasting shape to the resolve to make Delhi clean and beautiful.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar