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PM Modi to launch massive waste management campaign in 4000 cities on June 5

Source: Times Now, Date: , 2017

Source: Times Now, New Delhi, May, 2017 :- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, announced that a massive waste management campaign in 4000 cities will be launched on June 5, the World Environment Day. Waste bins of blue and green colours will be distributed in the cities along with an awareness drive under the campaign. "I have a firm belief that we will develop a culture and the new steps that we take towards achieving cleanliness will continue. Only then will we achieve the dream of Gandhiji, achieve the kind of cleanliness that he had dreamt of," PM Modi said in his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat'.He said the central government, in association with the state governments and municipal representatives, will launch a "massive and important campaign of waste management" in 4000 cities on the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5."Two types of waste bins will be available -- one of green colour and the other blue colour.... If we follow discipline, then the waste bins that are going to be placed in these 4000 cities will collect dry garbage in blue waste bins and liquid garbage in green waste bins," added PM Modi.

Read More: http://www.timesnow.tv/india/article/pm-narendra-modi-waste-management-4000-cities-world-environment-day-june-5/61883

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