{"id":315224,"date":"2019-09-25T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315224"},"modified":"2019-09-25T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T04:29:17","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-receives-goalkeeper-award-for-swachh-bharat-abhiyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-narendra-modi-receives-goalkeeper-award-for-swachh-bharat-abhiyan\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi receives Goalkeeper award for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-315225 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/modi-award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-award.jpg 638w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-award-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-award-534x420.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday conferred the Global Goalkeeper Award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his government\u2019s Swachh Bharat mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi thanked Gates Foundation for recognising India\u2019s strides in cleanliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He dedicated the award to 130 crore people of India and their collective endeavours to improve cleanliness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI dedicate the Global Goalkeeper Award, conferred by the @gatesfoundation, to the 130 crore people of India and the collective endeavours of our nation to improve cleanliness. It makes me most happy that India\u2019s successes in sanitation have helped women and children the most,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Gates Foundation has honoured me with the Global Goalkeeper Award at a time when the world is marking Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s 150th birth anniversary and when India has made remarkable progress in fulfilling his dream of a Swachh Bharat,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi further said the success of the Swachh Bharat Mission is due to the people of India. They made this their own movement and ensured the desired results were attained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia is ready to share best practices with other nations so that we can collectively work to improve global sanitation coverage,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday conferred the Global Goalkeeper Award by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his government\u2019s Swachh Bharat mission. PM Modi thanked Gates Foundation for recognising India\u2019s strides in cleanliness. He dedicated the award to 130 crore people of India and their collective endeavours to improve cleanliness. \u201cI dedicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[11822,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315226,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315224\/revisions\/315226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}