Swachhata Hi Seva 2026: Petroleum Ministry Changes 9,845 Units

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, with the public sector enterprises under it and its attached offices, has completed its part in the Swachhata Hi Seva 2026 campaign. The drive ran from 17 September to 2 October 2026 and opened with a pledge ceremony administered by the Secretary (Petroleum and Natural Gas) at Kartavya Bhawan-3 in New Delhi. The Secretary reviewed progress through the fortnight and pushed the ministry's organisations to widen participation.

Target units and public spaces

Under the first pillar, the ministry and its organisations took up cleaning and transformation at identified locations along with markets, neighbourhoods, toilets, offices and water bodies. A total of 9,845 cleanliness target units were transformed with 99,548 people taking part, and 937 public spaces were cleaned with 45,526 participants. Water bodies drew 143 cleanliness drives with 1,264 individuals, and 543 mohalla cleanliness drives were also held.

Students, sanitation workers and citizens

The Swachh Pathshala pillar, Yuva for Swachhta, reached 18,700 schoolchildren through awareness and demonstration activities, school-level drives, Jal Sanchay Samvad and Gyan Yatra, the last of which alone recorded 3,109 student participants. For sanitation workers, 234 Safai Mitra Suraksha Evam Samman Shivir were held with 7,098 workers taking part; 276 preventive health check-ups covered 4,365 participants and 3,518 PPE kits were handed out. Citizen participation came through 450 composting awareness drives, 154 Sports for Swachhta activities with 3,530 participants, and Say No to Plastics events that drew 2,662 participants.

Waste to wealth

The fifth pillar, Swachhata Se Samriddhi, turned to the circular economy through Kabaad Se Jugaad and Kabaad Se Kala. It engaged 191 art colleges and institutions, held 175 plastic recycling melas and assessed 135 plastic waste management units, while 687 entries came in under Kabaad Se Jugaad and 607 under Kabaad Se Kala.

Why it matters for exams

Swachhata Hi Seva is an annual campaign that closes on Swachh Bharat Diwas, and ministries report their work under a fixed set of pillars: transformation of target units and public spaces, Swachh Pathshala for the young, welfare camps for safai mitras, Jan Bhagidari for citizen participation, and Swachhata Se Samriddhi for waste to wealth. The names of these pillars, and the headline figure of a ministry's performance, are the details that turn up in objective papers.