SHIMLA: India’s first woman minister of Defence Nirmala Sitharaman today announced that Indian armed forces would carry out an exercise on high-altitude mountains to ‘fight a war’ against the junk and debris to be continued till October 2 taking part in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programme ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.
Ms Sitharaman, who kicked off the cleanliness drive at tourist resort and hill station of Kasauli this morning, said Kasauli happens to be one of the country’s oldest cantonments taking part among eight open defecation-free (ODF) cantonments fall under the Western Command.
She said the Defence Ministry has been assigned the task of cleaning all the debris and the tourists’ wastes that were left at the high-altitude positions and this was one of objectives, which started on September 15, would continue till October 2.
“And even if necessary, after that (October 2) too,” the country’s first woman Defence Minister said. In her address, she said the Indian Army would also take initiatives to recycle and segregate waste in all the cantonments. (AGENCIES)
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