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Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow:Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a Clean India drive and Mission launched as a national campaign by the Indian government in order to cover the 4041 statutory towns aiming maintained cleanliness of streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi has officially launched this mission on 2nd of October (the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi) in 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi (Bapu’s Samadhi).While launching the event Prime Minister himself had cleaned the road. It is the biggest cleanliness drive ever in India when approximately 3 million government employees including students from schools and colleges took part in the cleanliness activities.On the day of the launch of the event the PM himself nominated the names of nine people to participate in the cleanliness drive in their own areas: Salman Khan, Anil Ambani, Kamal Haasan, Kapil Sharma, Priyanka Chopra, Baba Ramdeo, Sachin Tendulkar and Shashi Tharoor. Schools and colleges have participated in the event by organizing many cleanliness activities according to their own themes.Students of India participated in this event. PM had also requested all those nine nominees to call another nine people separately to participate in this cleanliness drive as well as continue the chain of calling nine people by each and every participating member of the mission until the message reaches to the every Indian in every corner of the country to make it a national mission.This mission aimed to join each and every Indian from all walks of life in the same way that a tree grows and spreads its branches. Swachh Bharat Mission aims to construct individual sanitary latrines for household purposes for the people living under the poverty line, convert dry latrines into low-cost sanitary latrines, provide facility of hand pumps, safe and secure bathing, set up sanitary marts, construct drains, dispose of solid and liquid wastes, enhance health and education awareness, provide household and environmental sanitation facilities and many more.Earlier, many awareness programmes (such as Total Sanitation Campaign, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, etc.) about the environmental sanitation and personal cleanliness were launched by the Indian government. However, these could not be so effective to make India a clean India. The main objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan are removing the trend of open defecation, changing insanitary toilets into flush toilets, removal of manual scavenging, proper disposal of solid and liquid waste, bringing behavioural changes among people, enhancing awareness about sanitation, facilitating the participation of private sectors towards cleanliness facilities.In order to continue and make this campaign successful, the Finance Ministry of India has started a programme named Swachh Bharat Cess. According to this, everyone has to pay 0.5% more service tax on all the services in India (50 paise per 100 rupees) which will go towards the funding of this cleanliness campaign.1. What is the rate of Swachh Bharat Cess?2. What is Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?3. Why has the PM himself nominated the names of nine people?4. How many persons took part in the cleanliness drive?5. What did the PM do when he launched the campaign?6. Where and when was the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched?Find out a word from the passage which means:7. Around8. A Sudden Rapid Flow9. Useless |
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Answer» 1. The rate of Swachh Bharat Cess is 0.5%. 2. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a clean India drive. 3. he PM himself has nominated the names of nine people to participate in the cleanliness drive in their own areas. 4. Approximately 3 million government employees including students from schools and colleges took part in the cleanliness drive. 5. When the PM launched the campaign, he himself cleaned the road. 6. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched by Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 2nd October in 2014. 7. Approximately 8. Flush 9. Flush |
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