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also moving forward with the goal like doing good to others, serving
of a self-reliant India which, in the others, doing charity. Recently,
real sense, will be a true tribute in the country, another glimpse
to the freedom fighters. That’s of this spirit of social service was
why I request you to break all the seen. You must have also seen that
records this time to buy these people are coming forward and
products of Khadi, handloom are adopting one TB patient or the
or handicrafts. We have seen other, taking the lead in ensuring a
that polythene bags are also nutritious diet. Actually, it is a part
being used a lot for packing and of the TB Free India campaign,
packaging during festivals. The whose basis is public participation;
harmful litter of polythene on the a sense of duty. It is possible to
festivals observing cleanliness cure TB with the right nutrition, with
is also against the spirit of our the right medicines at the right
festivals. Therefore, we should time. I believe that with this power
use only locally made non- of public participation, India will
plastic bags. The trend of jute, definitely be free from TB by the
cotton, banana fibre, many year 2025.
such traditional bags is on the Friends, I have also come
rise once again. It is our duty to to know such an example from
promote them on the occasion the Union Territories of Dadra-
of festivals, and take care of our Nagar Haveli and Daman-Diu,
health and environment along which touches the heart. Jinu
with cleanliness. Rawatiya ji, who lives in a tribal
area here, has written that under
My dear countrymen, it the ongoing village adoption
is said in our scriptures – ‘Parhit program, students of the medical
Saris Dharam Nahi Bhai’ college have adopted 50 villages.
That is, there is no other Dharma It also includes the village of

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