New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) The Centre has earned as much as Rs 4,085.24 crore through five dedicated annual cleanliness (Swachhata) campaigns lasting one month each since 2021, through disposal of scrap, including electronic scrap, from different central government offices as part of the Special Swachhata campaign, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on Sunday.

The minister also disclosed that another significant outcome of the campaign was that 231.75 lakh square feet of space has been freed for productive utility which was earlier choked and blocked with waste material, worn out furniture and scrap.

“Interestingly, the amount of over Rs 4,085 crore earned by selling off the scrap could be the total budget of one mega Space mission or multiple Chandrayaan Space missions, while the total

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