Government Scrap Earnings: The Indian government has earned crores of rupees just by selling junk. A large scale cleanliness campaign was organized by the Central Government last month. During this period, the government collected about Rs 800 crore by selling scrap.
This figure is so big that an amount equal to the government’s small schemes was obtained just by selling scrap. This figure is more than the budget of Chandrayaan-3, which cost Rs 615 crore. According to a report of News 18, the central government has earned a bumper income from this cleanliness campaign.
What does the report say?
According to information received from a report by News18, since starting the annual campaign in the year 2021, the Central Government has so far earned approximately Rs 4,100 crore by selling scrap. If we talk about this year’s figures, record breaking cleanliness was achieved in this big campaign which ran between 2nd to 31st October.
During this period, 232 lakh square feet office space was vacated and about 29 lakh old files were removed. This was the biggest cleanliness campaign till date, in which more than 11.58 lakh offices actively participated.
Understand the whole topic from data
Five major cleanliness campaigns were organized by the central government between 2021 and 2025. A total of 23.62 lakh government offices were cleaned under these five campaigns. Also, 928.84 lakh square feet space was vacated and 166.95 lakh files were sorted or closed.
This entire campaign not only promoted cleanliness but also helped in reducing the pending cases in these government offices. Along with all this, the government treasury also got filled with this. The government earned a total of Rs 4,097.24 crore.
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