New Delhi: The University Grants Commission has asked all higher educational institutes to promote a book on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship project — Swachh Bharat Mission.
The book, titled ‘The Swachh Bharat Revolution’, has been published by Harper Collins India and has a foreword written by Modi.
In a letter sent to the institutes Wednesday, the UGC said they should obtain copies of the book to distribute them among their students and staff.
“The Swachh Bharat Mission has been implemented at a large scale. The method of implementation of the programme needs to be shared widely, given its applicability across all sectors. All higher education institutions and their affiliated colleges are requested to consider obtaining and disseminating the book and to make available copies published by Harper Collins India to students and staff,” it said.
Book compiled by Jal Shakti Ministry
The book, compiled by the Jal Shakti Ministry, includes chapters written by prominent individuals from various sectors on how they contributed to the roll-out of the mission.
“The Jal Shakti Ministry has compiled a compendium of essays to chronicle the implementation journey of Swachh Bharat Mission in the last five years. The book truly captures the all-encompassing and cross-sectoral nature of people’s movement, which has emerged as a global case study,” the UGC letter further said.
Swachh Bharat Mission was launched in 2014, soon after Modi took over as the Prime Minister. Under the scheme, India was to be declared open-defecation free by October 2019 — as a fitting tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary.
The Modi government has used educational institutes as a platform to showcase its policies in the past as well. For instance, a comic book on Ayushman Bharat, government’s flagship health insurance scheme, was distributed in schools across the country in September.
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