Special Campaign 6.0: Coal CPSEs Earn Rs 53.94 Crore from Scrap

Special Campaign 6.0, the Centre’s month-long drive on office cleanliness and the clearing of pending paperwork, moved into its closing week on 26 October 2026, and ministries in Delhi put out the figures they had reached. The drive runs from 2 October to 31 October 2026.

What the drive asks of departments

Each department works to targets under a few heads: sanitation at headquarters and at field units, review and weeding of paper files and e-files, release of office space held up by obsolete material, and segregated disposal of electronic waste in keeping with the e-waste rules of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change. Faster settlement of public grievances sits alongside these heads, and the targets themselves were fixed during a preparatory phase before October began.

Coal ministry posts the day’s largest figures

Central public sector undertakings under the Ministry of Coal overshot every target they had set themselves. Cleaning reached 1,696 sites where 1,565 had been identified, and covered 130.16 lakh square feet against a promised 101.80 lakh. Scrap lifted came to 16,158 metric tonnes where 10,909 tonnes had been projected, and selling it earned the exchequer about Rs 53.94 crore. Officials went through 78,635 paper and electronic files against a target of 59,593, and 70,093 of those files were closed or weeded out.

Ports and indirect taxes

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs also reviewed 622 e-files and formally closed 204 of them, and held cleaning drives at 545 spots, of which 424 lay inside office premises and 121 outside. Mechanised cleaning was used at 57 of those spots. Its scrap haul was made up of 16,817 kg of general waste and 1,024 kg of non-office material besides the e-waste.

Practices the ministries singled out

• A bin for collecting and sorting electronic waste was built at SECL headquarters out of recycled scrap.
• The canteen at Coal India headquarters reopened as Cilantro on 5 October 2026 after a renovation nearly a decade in the making.
• Western Coalfields supported more than 160 girl students, mostly from tribal and mining-area families, at the Mata Sabri Balika Awasiya Shiksha Parisar in Parasia, Chhindwara.
• Sanitary napkin vending machines were installed at Coal India headquarters for women employees and visitors.
• Kumartuli Ghat in Kolkata is being restored by Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port together with Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd.

What falls on 27 and 30 October

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will hold a one-day Kayakalp exercise on sanitation in government health facilities on 27 October 2026; its review was chaired by Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava from Kartavya Bhawan-1 in New Delhi. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has asked States and Union Territories to hold a special one-day event on 30 October 2026, and to settle grievances pending on the Poshan Tracker, PMMVY and CPGRAMS portals by that date; 109 officers from the States and Union Territories joined its review meeting. At Lok Nayak Bhawan, Minister of State Jitendra Singh opened a library-cum-reading hall in space the campaign had freed, and honoured sanitation staff.