Sayeed Muhammad: Dhaka Clean-up Campaign, a cleanliness programme organised by Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in Dhaka on April 13 this year, has ended up being named in Guinness Book of World Records as the largest clean-up campaign.
DSCC Public Relations Officer Zakir Hossain confirmed the development, saying authorities of the Guinness Book of World Records published it at their website on Monday, reports UNB.
The DSCC in collaboration with Reckitt Benckiser Bangladesh organised the programme for building awareness among the people to make Dhaka a clean and a healthy city.
The move was planned for mass awareness that practising hygiene should not be limited to personal life only; rather it should be practised at a community level to build a clean city.
Over 20,000 people, including members of Rover Scouts, Bangladesh National Cadet Core (BNCC), Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and Fire Service, celebrities, actors, students from educational institutions and social activists, took part in the campaign with brooms spontaneously to set the record.
The previous record was set by India’s Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) in 2017 as more than 5,000 people participated in a clean-up drive in the Indian city.