NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh has taken lead in the ongoing ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ (SHS) campaign launched on September 17 with an aim to identify sites which are generally neglected during routine cleanliness activities. In the first six days of the campaign, the state has transformed more than 39,000 dirty spots, referred to as Cleanliness Target Units (CTUs) with the help of authorities.The two southern states—Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh—are also marching ahead at second and third position in this campaign. So far, more than 26, 622 CTUs have been transformed in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh has cleaned 15, 852 spots. In Bihar and Rajasthan, the authorities had cleaned 15,754 and 15,668 sites till Sunday respectively.The SHS dashboard shows that more than 5.6 lakh sites have been identified across states and union territories (UTs) and 1.43 of them have been transformed.At the curtain raiser event of the campaign, union housing and urban affair minister Manohar Lal stated that the government intended to transform two lakh dirty points such as drains, railway tracks, tourist places, bus stands and office complexes.According to the portal, more than 1.5 lakh CTUs were identified in Uttar Pradesh and 1.74 crore CTU volunteers are registered.
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