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The Centre has earned Rs 776 crore disposing of scrap in the three special cleanliness campaigns undertaken by all government offices across the country in the last three years, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Wednesday..
A large chunk of this revenue -- Rs 176 crore -- has been earned in the last 20 days of the ongoing special cleanliness campaign 3.0, he said.. Addressing a press conference here after reviewing the progress of week three of the special campaign being implemented in all government offices of India, Singh said nearly 86 lakh sq ft of office space has been made available in the three weeks...
"There is also better mass understanding about the application of innovation and technology for recycling and reuse of waste materials for productive means," the minister said.. Singh advocated the trinity of artificial intelligence, robotics and drones in order to segregate waste intelligently and for swift disposal of resultant materials...
"Now, if we can have an artificial intelligence-driven module which can segregate the solid and liquid waste, then we have the robot which would carry this and load it onto the drone and then the drone would automatically fly and carry it to the respective destination," he said.. Underlining that every bit of garbage is worth its return, the minister said the Department of Science and Technology, Technology Development Board and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) recently launched the "recycling on wheels" bus, which can generate wealth from waste at different spots due to its mobility...
He said the government has earned a total revenue of Rs 776 crore just by disposing of scrap in the three special campaigns undertaken by all government offices across the country in the last three years, the statement quoted the minister as having said.. "So our pace of generating revenue is also increasing..
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