DIPAM Completes Special Campaign 6 for Swachhata and Pendency

The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), which works under the Ministry of Finance, has placed on record what it achieved in Special Campaign 6, the government-wide drive to make cleanliness a settled habit in offices and to clear matters that have been pending for too long. The department's share of the drive ran from 2 October 2026 to 31 October 2026.

How the drive was organised

The exercise came in two parts. A preparatory phase between 15 and 30 September 2026 was used to fix targets, and the implementation phase that followed was spent meeting them. Targets were chosen in the areas where paperwork tends to pile up: VIP references, references received from other ministries and from the Prime Minister's Office, and Parliamentary Assurances. Alongside the file work, the department took up simpler procedures, a review and weeding of old records, and the upkeep of its premises, which covered cleanliness, better use of space and the removal of scrap.

What the numbers show

Every one of the 3 VIP references that had been identified was cleared. Of the 8 Parliamentary Assurances taken up, an Implementation Report on 1 was forwarded to the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Secretariats for their consideration. Two cleanliness drives were held inside the department. Electronic waste was sold as scrap through MSTC Limited, fetching Rs 2,01,777. Senior officers walked through the office and the building to judge how the preparations and the progress of the drive stood, and used those inspections to press the point that the highest standards of cleanliness have to be maintained.

Why this department's case is unusual

Most ministries and departments run a campaign of this kind down a long chain of field formations. DIPAM has no such chain. It has no attached office, no subordinate office and no autonomous body under it, so the whole exercise was carried out within the department itself. The name of the department says what its work is about, investment and public asset management, and it sits inside the Ministry of Finance.

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