Swachh Bharat -- Swachh Consulate
Our own Cleanliness Drive

In sync with the launch of Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat campaign, the Consulate General of India, New York, will take a cleanliness pledge on October 2nd, 2014, on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, at Union Square Park, along with a large number of Indian Americans.
               
The Consulate had already been conducting an extensive cleanliness drive, since April 2013, of its historic Upper East Side building. Paperwork dated older than three decades, decrepit equipment and potential bio-hazards, which were occupying precious space in the pre-war era building, were weeded out and destroyed.

Roughly 90,000 documents were scanned and digitalized daily in the first few months, to salvage paperwork that was still required for reference. Incidentally, a long lost life-size portrait of Sardar Patel was also unearthed in this drive, in addition to precious glassware and cutlery.

At the end of the cleaning phase of the drive, the Consulate is now looking into restoration and renovation of the building to bring it back to its former glory.