Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a name that needs no introduction. He is a man of words, what he said, he does. As we know he is so strict regarding preserving Mother Nature and preserving our environment. That’s why he encourages everyone to avoid the use of plastics in daily life and he is the man behind launching Swacch Bharat Mission in India to encourage everyone to make India neat and clean. Recently, we also him on a cleaning spree at Tamil Nadu’s beach, Mamallapuram ahead of meeting with Chinese President, Xi Jinping. Most of the individuals have appraised Modi for this act while some are making fun of him by saying, cleaning plastic with plastic and some other comments.

PM Modi also releases a video on Twitter while cleaning the trash-

Even PM Modi also released the video on Twitter where he could be seen picking up plastic garbage from the beach and other kinds of waste from while doing his morning walk which got viral on social media. He was wearing a black kurta and dhoti, walking barefoot and picking up litter very nicely.

Modi on Twitter Said

Plogging at a beach in Mamallapuram this morning. It lasted for over 30 minutes.

Also handed over my ‘collection’ to Jeyaraj, who is a part of the hotel staff.

Let us ensure our public places are clean and tidy!

Let us also ensure we remain fit and healthy. pic.twitter.com/qBHLTxtM9y

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 12, 2019

On his Twitter profile, he mentioned, “Plogging at a beach in Mamallapuram this morning. It lasted for over 30 minutes. Also handed over my ‘collection’ to Jeyaraj, who is a part of the hotel staff? Let us ensure our public places are clean and tidy! Let us also ensure we remain fit and healthy.”

Seeing his Post on Twitter, fisherman K. Vinod who belongs to the Ocean awareness group, responded, “When the Prime Minister can do it, why can’t ordinary people too.

One of the Mamallapuram residents appraises Modi’s Act

Appraising the act, Mamallapuram resident, Aine Edwards had also posted several photographs where she says how clean the town and beach looks after the summit. “It just shows that the town has the potential to be clean. The humans, who cleaned it up so beautifully, did a good job. But can they keep it that way?” she asked.

Actor Prakash Raj criticized his exercise

Some of them also criticized this act of Modi, Actor Prakash Raj on Twitter said,

India’s PM’s litter picking’plog’on beach by himself walking barefoot.

Nice tweet @prakashraaj “where is our leaders security…. y have u left him alone 2 clean with a cameraman following….#JustAsking 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/1svHj2EFSd

— Menaka Krish (@Menaka_Krish08) October 13, 2019

Other people said that the beach was already clean since it’s a tourist place. Modi is just trying to raise his name that’s it. For example Kancheepuram District Collector, P. Ponniah said the plastic must have washed up onto the beach. “Since the beach is visited by tourists, it is usually kept clean. We had also cleaned up the beach before and during the summit,” he said. Here, he means to criticize his exercise.

As PM Modi has arranged an informal summit with Chinese President, Xi Jinping, he also discussed with him lots of other areas of concern and issues that are affecting our environment and nature. They both met at Mamallapuram and held the second round of talks at Taj Fishermen’s Cove in Kovalam.

PM #NarendraModi took Jinping to Mamallapuram beach for a reason.
1400 years ago Pallav king of Mamallapuram was involved in import and export of goods to China via sea route.@narendramodi choose this location to inform Chinese President about this and strengthen our ties. pic.twitter.com/W0roya62T1

— Ajit Doval (@AjitKDoval_NSA) October 12, 2019

This year while giving a speech on the occasion of Independence Day, PM Modi had announced a campaign to make the country free by not using any kind of plastic. Now, we need to wait and watch how many of us will follow what he said to keep our country clean.

Many people are telling that he is pretending to clean the beach. For all those haters, Team GudStory wants to give a simple msg which is the same in the following tweet..

If he is acting , you can also act . At least you will clean something in hate of him.#NarendraModi #SwachhBharat @narendramodi pic.twitter.com/GBZQQvyXo2

— HowDareYou (@maza_kiya) October 12, 2019

The two of the most prominent broadband companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) are going to be shut down as decided by the Finance Ministry. Well, this news has made many people sad and disheartened. The reason behind this is their love and attachment towards these service operators they have for decades that they can’ afford to forget. As per the reports by the Financial Express, the two public sector undertakings are now finding difficult to sustain amid the competition between private companies that have taken over them. This is why the government has finally decided to shut them down permanently which will leave people working here in the lurch.

The report also tells that the ministry has rejected the proposal kept by the two telcos of pumping in a massive amount of Rs. 74,000 crore to revive them. The ministry has told that the total expense in closing both the companies would be less than Rs. 95,000 crore including the payment to their 1.65 lakh employees for the voluntary retirement scheme and its debt repayment.

While the proposal to shut down these two companies might be very surprising for many but for some it was obvious as we all know how hard it was for BSNL to survive between too many competing companies in the private sector. BSNL has been struggling for very long and even its employees were also not paid for a long time due to their incapability. Last month, it was reported that BSNL had asked 50% of its employees to resign at their will. Even, MTNL is also making defaults for not paying their employees on time from some months.

Both of these companies have a huge employee base. BSNL has 1.76 lakh employees across India while MTNL has around 22,000 employees and the total monthly salary expenses of BSNL are in the range of Rs. 750-850 crore while that of MTNL is around Rs. 160 crores which they are not able to pay right now.

As soon as this news came out, people became emotional and they start outraging their comments on Twitter for the companies and their attachment towards them.

Have a look at some of the tweets below:

Dear @PMOIndia, Closure Of #BSNL is Not the Right Decision.!
Did Govt Forgot the Profits till 2008.?
Forgot the #BSNL‘s Part During Floods.?
Shutdown of #BSNL is nothing but Shutdown of One Of Govt Services to Rural areas
Which Serves without Commercial Purpose#BSNL_REVIVAL pic.twitter.com/u5AYjGmj0N

— PvikramvsPvikramvs (@PvikramV) October 10, 2019

Press meet by Jorhat SSA team ASSAM
Against Negative propoganda in social , print, electronic media is going on.
Why still No press release by corporate Team @BSNLCorporate @CMDBSNL Are they are waiting to Die #BSNL #SaveBSNL#BSNL_REVIVAL Only God will save.@PMOIndia @rsprasad pic.twitter.com/N4BFfNxRX1

— Rajesh Mishra (@Rajesh_Mishra8) October 11, 2019

Please guys….switch to BSNL and help revive this ailing enterprise.

You will help the economy and millions of worried BSNL staff will give you blessings.😇#BoycottJio #BSNL pic.twitter.com/qcjnp4gyuy

— Arpita Mukherjee (@ImArpitaMukherj) October 9, 2019

Res.@nsitharaman
Mam, @CNBCTV18News @CNBCTV18Live & all newspapers & news channel quoting @FinMinIndia that #bsnl & #mtnl are Closed Down.
Mam, Is it Authentic bcz we as a Citizen of India want to know the actual fact bcoz we are real stakeholders employees of #bsnl & https://t.co/P2WExq7qVk

— Manish (@IamManish9700) October 9, 2019

Jio gives Freebies

People: Switch to #Jio!

Finance Ministry: We should shut down #BSNL and #MTNL.

Jio: Now we will charge for interconnect usage charge.

People: #BoycottJio

Wah re public! #RelianceJio #reliance

— Snehasish Nayak 🇮🇳 (@AskSnehasish) October 10, 2019

#AirIndia #BPCL #MTNL #BSNL #Concor

Sell India finally pic.twitter.com/jVSXgXJoce

— S I D (@sidsays_) October 13, 2019

@ArvindKejriwal sir need your help.
My mother works in MTNL and she and rest of the dept. is not getting salary from last 3 months and she is the only person who earns in our family. Please help and solve this problem. You are our CM. #MTNL @msisodia

— Nakul (@Nakul01179584) October 13, 2019

You might be knowing that the city Indore has been given the tag of the cleanest city of India. There are multiple reasons that have made this city clean and beautiful. Back to back, three times the city has been given the tag for the cleanest city. I will say not only the government’s strict regulations but also the combined efforts of the citizens have made this city to get this title. All have done a fabulous job to make the city clean. So, are you curious to know which reasons make this city the cleanest and beautiful one? Let’s talk about it

Some of the reasons that make Indore the ‘cleanest’ city of India:

1. They keep separate dustbins to hold trash

via; Twitter

Did you know garbage bins in Indore has been replaced by dustbins? Almost in every locality and area, you will get to see proper dustbins. Not only this, they have two separate dustbins to carry the trash. One is for dry waste and another one is for wet waste.

2. Government distributed dustbins

via: Twitter

Such a wonderful initiative was taken by the government to gift the dustbins to the residents of the city by visiting their homes. This way they are motivating people to use dustbins and help them in saving the environment by not littering here and there.

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3. Musical trucks to spreads the Swacchta awareness among everyone

via: Twitter

To spread awareness for cleanliness, the government has also made use of the trucks which play music like Swachh Bharat Ka irada song and hatrick song.

4. Residents were given awards

The residents who contributed to making the city clean and beautiful were also given timely rewards and recognition by the government where they share their stories about how they did this and try to inspire everyone by their great deeds.

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5. Giving awareness about composting

via: Twitter

People were also given awareness about how to compost the waste and in what way. How the whole system works and how the waste will be composted by playing ads on radio or newspaper.

6. Children were made ambassadors of Swachh Bharat

via: The Millennium Schools

Many small children were also made brand ambassadors of cleanliness mission, Swachh Bharat for Indore. The songs were also recorded by the children regarding the garbage collection and were played so that other people would get to know about this. Even they use rap to make it more attractive and attention-seeking.

Not only these measures have made the city beautiful and clean, but also the government efforts and some strict policies related to garbage collection have made people attentive. Those who do not pay attention to it were also levied a hefty fine and those who followed were given awards. This is due to their combined efforts, Indore was ranked the cleanest city in India, according to Swachh Survekshan which is an initiative of the Urban Development Ministry.

So, by following these ways we can also make our city clean and beautiful like Indore. Let’s take a pledge that we will not litter and try to save our environment and mother earth.

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