Speech about cleanliness

Good morning to the Excellencies, Principal sir, sir, madam and my dear friends. At this event, I
would like to speech on cleanliness. I am very thankful to my class teacher that she has
selected me to speech on cleanliness at this event. It is the serious topic and needs high level
social awareness. People in the developed countries (Western Europe and North America)
never depend on the authorities sweeping as they never dirt their roads or surrounding areas.
They do themselves on daily basis. We too have to take such effective steps to clean our
country. We should not wait any authority sweeper that he/she will pick up the broom and clean
our surrounding areas and roads.

First we should not make public places dirty and if it happens, we have to clean it as only we are
responsible. This responsibility needs to be understood by every Indian citizen. There is need to
change our mentality as only this can keep India clean. Lots of cleaning resources and
measures cannot be effective enough to keep India clean until we change our mind that whole
country is like our home and we need to keep it clean. It is our property, not other’s. We need to
understand that, a country is like a home in which various family members live in joint family.

As we suppose that, things inside the home are our own property and we never make them dirty
and spoil. In the same way, we need to suppose that, everything outside the home is also our
own property and we should never make them dirty and keep clean. We can change the drastic
situation of our country through collective ownership. Instead of infrastructure improvements,
effective plants for wastes treatment from industries, agriculture, and other fields, laws and rules
by government, etc; we need to think and consider our own responsibility using our own mind
and effort. It is not the responsibility of government only; it is the collective responsibility of each
and every Indian citizen.

It is true that we cannot clean the whole country in a day or year, however; it will be our big hand
if we stop making filthy the public places in India. It is our responsibility to stop ourselves as well
as others who are making India’s public property filthy. As we generally see in our family that,
every member has some particular responsibility (someone for sweeping, someone for cleaning,
someone for bringing vegetables, someone for outside works, etc) and he/she has to do that
timely in anyway. Just like that, if all the Indians take responsibility (of cleanliness and prevent
from getting dirty) for small space in the surrounding areas, I think that, the day is not so far
when we will see cleanliness everywhere all through the country.

Before starting any cleanliness drive, we have to make sure that we have a clean mind first.
Cleanliness is not only necessary to get good impression from others; however it is very
important for the healthy mind, body, spirit, and environment. As we care for our body to be
clean, we must care for our country too.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (or Clean India Mission) is a clean India drive run by the Government of
India to cover around 4,041 statutory cities and towns of India to clean the roads, streets, and
making better infrastructure of the country. We should respect and follow this national campaign
and support it through our every possible effort.

Thank You.