Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann (Photo: PTI)

The campaign, launched on August 29 across all 166 Urban Local Bodies, including 14 municipal corporations and 152 municipal councils and nagar panchayats, has received 6,459 complaints through the M-Seva app.The Bhagwant Mann government has extended Punjab’s statewide Cleanliness Campaign 2.0 till September 12 after more than 5,400 civic complaints were resolved, Local Government Minister Harjot Singh Bains said on Tuesday.The campaign, launched on August 29 across all 166 Urban Local Bodies, including 14 municipal corporations and 152 municipal councils and nagar panchayats, has received 6,459 complaints through the M-Seva app. Of these, 5,407, or more than 83%, have been resolved, Bains said.Addressing a press conference at MC Bhawan, Bains said the campaign was extended following a surge in public participation and complaints received on the final day of the original campaign period.The government will also organise four mega cleanliness drives over the next four Saturdays, beginning September 12, to encourage sustained public participation. The drives will be held in collaboration with NGOs, market associations, youth clubs, religious organisations and resident welfare associations.Bains said the Local Government Department has rolled out door-to-door garbage collection across all cities to prevent the recurrence of garbage vulnerable points (GVPs).

He appealed to residents to keep their waste at home until the collection vehicle arrives and warned that littering in public places would attract fines after the awareness phase.“Without active public participation, sustainable cleanliness is impossible,” Bains said, urging citizens to join the Saturday drives and spend two to three hours cleaning parks, markets and neighbourhoods.The minister said he had personally visited Kurali, Kharar and Nangal over the past 10 days to review the campaign on the ground and interact with sanitation workers.The department will conduct a detailed analysis of the campaign after September 12, including photographic evidence of garbage vulnerable points that have been permanently eliminated, Bains said.