New Delhi, Aug. 30 -- Addressing the 137th episode of his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted citizen-led sanitation initiatives and grassroots entrepreneurship, emphasising the role of public participation in bringing about wider social change.

Speaking about cleanliness initiatives across the country, PM Modi stressed how collective resolve at the local level can transform the identity and character of a place.

"Cleanliness has a very great quality. When the resolve to keep a place clean becomes the people's own resolve, the change does not remain limited only to cleanliness. It transforms the very identity of that place. Such efforts for cleanliness across different parts of the ...