Modi orders officials to clean loos on Gandhi Jayanti

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ordered government officers to work on Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, a national holiday, to clean ministries — including toilets — in a nationwide cleanliness drive.

Modi plans to honour the independence hero by launching on Thursday the Clean India campaign, which aims to solve the country’s sanitation and rubbish problems within five years to mark the 150th anniversary of Gandhi’s October 2 birthday.