PM Modi will also interact with beneficiaries of the Jal Jeevan Mission in Gujarat through video conference. Modi would speak to beneficiaries from Pimpli village in Palanpur taluka of Banaskantha district around 11 am. He is scheduled to interact with beneficiaries of the scheme in some other states too.

On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, a “gram sabha” will be held in each of the 14,250 village panchayats of Gujarat between 10 am and 11am. The PM’s interaction with the residents of Pimpli will be broadcast live at all these gram sabhas, an official release stated.

On 15 August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the Jal Jeevan Mission — to provide clean tap water to every household. In 2019, only 3.23 crore (17 percent) rural households had tap water supply. Currently, under the scheme, more than five crore households have been provided with tap water connections.

Addressing the 81st episode of his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, PM Modi remembered the contribution of Gandhi to the cleanliness movement and said “Mahatma Gandhi had associated cleanliness with the dream of independence”. “Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) was a proponent of cleanliness, he made cleanliness a mass movement and associated it with the dream of independence,” he said.

He said the youth of today must know that how the cleanliness campaign had given constant energy to the freedom movement. “Today, after so many decades, the cleanliness movement has once again worked to connect the country with the dream of a new India,” he said.

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