CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -"Dia is a youth icon and has been an active campaigner for Swachh Bharat. We felt that she would be the best person to help us reach out to more youngsters. Our aim is to make it a viral youth led movement, ” Swachh Bharat mission director Praveen Prakash said.

Detailed explanation-2: -Swachh Saathi programme is a youth-based cleanliness drive programme, parallel to clean india mission of Swachh Bharat Mission. It aims at encouraging, educating and enrolling school going children to actively participate in swachh Bharat mission and other environmental safeguarding missions.

Detailed explanation-3: -From later dates the following public icons & celebrities were nominated as National Brand Ambassadors by Prime Minister Modi to join and support the Swachh Bharat Mission: Shilpa Shetty (Actress), from February 2017. Raveena Tandon (Actress), from February 2017. Sanjay Dutt (Actor), from 2018.

Detailed explanation-4: -Brand Ambassadors of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014 Kapil Sharma is a popular Indian actor, host, producer and an excellent stand-up comedian.