Page 45 - Mann Ki Baat September 2022
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Municipal   Corporation  stood        Yash, a resident of Meerut
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        at second in the state and 15      says, "The way in which the city has
        in the whole nation, for which it   been made so beautiful and clean
        has been selected in the ‘Fastest   with 'Kabaad Se Jugaad' in our city
        Mover City’ Awards. Hearing the    is very commendable. I want to
        Prime Minister's appreciation of   thank the Municipal Corporation
        this program in 'Mann ki Baat',    for coming up with this new and
        Amit thanked the Prime Minister    innovative idea. Where people
        and   said,  "Meerut  Municipal    used to throw all these things, now
        Corporation will take this program   with this initiative of the Municipal
        further as per the intention of the   Corporation, the same junk is
        Prime Minister. City beautification   now increasing the beauty of this
        work will be taken further by linking   city in a new form. I would urge
        it with public participation so that   every youngster to participate
        we can make Meerut a clean and     enthusiastically in this campaign
        healthy city”                      and make our city clean. I also
            Inder Vijay Singh, Assistant   want to thank the Prime Minister
        Municipal  Commissioner    also    for praising this campaign of
        shared his experience, "We hired   our city.”
        a vendor and gave all Municipal       Another     resident   Riya
        Corporation's  junk  to  him  and   Jawla also expressed her views,
        asked him to design different      “In this project, we have seen
        things  which were  used  at       that Municipal Corporation is
        intersections and roadsides. Using   beautifying the road intersections
        three 'R' principle i.e. 'Reduce,   with the help of recycled waste.
        Reuse  and Recycle' we  created    After the Prime Minister’s mention
        a Gandhi memorial in Children's    of this program, I hope that every
        Park. Over here, we have created   person in this city will promote this
        a Charkha using handcart, chain    initiative and together we will be
        and freewheel, which  is worth     able to make Meerut beautiful.”
        seeing and is now becoming
        famous as a selfie point. We thank   Scan the QR code to watch a
        the Prime Minister for appreciating   special report on the 'Kabaad
        the work that we have done."        se Jugaad' program.

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