Overview

• Rekha Gupta joined local MLA Surya Prakash Khatri, Mayor Raja Iqbal Singh, and MCD Commissioner Ashwani Kumar in leading volunteers through a street-sweeping and waste-clearance operation in north Delhi’s Sanjay Basti on Tuesday.
• She unveiled the Swachhata Challenge as a chain-nomination effort marking 78 years of independence to recruit public figures and ordinary residents across neighbourhoods.
• The campaign’s dedicated online portal remains active for residents to upload before-and-after photos and showcase community clean-up contributions.
• Weekend special programmes are ongoing throughout August with Resident Welfare Associations, NGOs, market associations, religious groups and government departments coordinating targeted sanitation activities.
• Gupta instructed immediate cleaning of vacant Delhi Development Authority plots and reinforced inter-departmental coordination to maintain the “Freedom from Garbage” campaign’s momentum.