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Christmas of 2014 had been christened Good Governance Day by the newly-elected NDA Government. Offices had been kept open to…
As the Global Citizen India 2016 — the first step
of the nation to bring about positive changes in India to fight extreme poverty
— took place on Saturday, prioritising on clean India movement, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi said he was confident that “the day is not far when the
country will be filth free”.
While addressing the youth of the nation and 80,000
attendees of Global Citizen Festival India here in Mumbai MMRDA ground via a
video conference, Modi said, “It is amazing to see how the nation is
participating in Swachh Bharat movement and cleaning all the corners of the
nation. I am convinced that we can and we will build a Swachh Bharat that is
free of all forms of filth within one generation.”
In his speech, he also mentioned that poverty was
one of the biggest challenges for any developing country along with
malnutrition, unemployment, corruption that posed challenges to grow.
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The prime minister said, “We have to work
towards our mission shoulder to shoulder to make it successful.”
Global Citizen India is a movement brought to India
by Global Citizen, a social action platform and The Global Education and
Leadership Foundation (tGELF), an organisation focused on cultivating ethical,
altruistic leadership to improve the state of the planet through collective
action.
From Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Vidya Balan,
Alia Bhatt and many other Bollywood stars to the Chief Minister of Maharashtra
Devendra Fednavis and the iconic English band Coldplay participated to bring
people together and stand for a noble cause that celebrate humanity and fight
against poverty.
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