Special Campaign 5.0 for institutionalizing Swachhata and minimizing pendency in Government offices — 2nd October 2025 to 31st October, 2025: Guidelines by Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances O.M. dated 01.08.2025
No. Q-11011/01/2025-O&M (e-9571)
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances
Sardar Patel Bhawan, New Delhi
Dated, the 1st August, 2025
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Special Campaign 5.0 for institutionalizing Swachhata and minimizing pendency in Government offices — 2nd October 2025 to 31st October, 2025- regarding.
The Government will organize Special Campaign 5.0 for improving Swachhata and disposal of pending references from 2nd October — 31st October, 2025, on the lines of the Special Campaigns held in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on the same theme. Since the inception of the campaign in 2021, and as of June, 2025, the cumulate outcomes of the campaigns include 3220.04 crore revenue earned from scrap disposal, 11.97 lakh sites covered under cleanliness drives across the country and in overseas Indian Missions, and 137.12 lakh files were weeded out/closed.
2. The success of Special Campaigns over the years has resulted in institutionalisation of the campaign and the Government plans to conduct a bigger campaign this year. The Special Campaign will cover all Offices of the Ministries /Departments of Government of India, their attached / subordinate offices / PSUs /autonomous organizations. In this regard, Cabinet Secretary has vide D.O. No.502/2/2/2024-CA.V/CA. III dated the 30th July, 2025 addressed all Secretaries to the Government of India (Annexure). Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) will be the nodal Department for coordinating and steering the campaign across the country. The following Guidelines have been formulated by DARPG for smooth conduct of Special Campaign 5.0.
Guidelines for Special Campaign 5.0
3. The Special Campaign 5.0 will be organised in two phases — Preparatory Phase from 15th September, 2025 to 30th September, 2025 and Implementation Phase from 2nd October, 2025 to 31st October, 2025.
4. The Special Campaign 2025 aims at saturation of Swachhata in all offices of all Ministries/ Departments including their attached / subordinate offices / PSUs /autonomous organizations by improving overall cleanliness of Government offices and enhancing experience of common public with Government offices. The focus of the campaign this year shall be field/outstation offices responsible for service delivery or having public interface, in addition to the Ministries/Departments and their attached/subordinate offices/PSUs/autonomous organizations. The focus area of Special Campaign 5.0 is disposal of e-waste generated in Government Offices in compliance of E-waste Management Rules 2022 issued by Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (copy attached). The broad guidelines for both the phases are as follows:-
Preparatory Phase of the Special Campaign 15-30th September 2025
5. The Special Campaign will be preceded by Preparatory Phase from 15th September, 2025 to 30th September, 2025. During this phase, Ministries/Departments are supposed to do the following activities:
(i) Nominate nodal officers in each of their campaign offices in attached /subordinate offices/ PSUs / autonomous organizations (by 25th August, 2025).
(ii) Arrange training for the nodal officers about their role in the campaign
(iii) Mobilize the offices/officers and ground functionaries for the Campaign
(iv) Identify pending references
(v) Identify campaign sites for cleanliness
(vi) Assess the volume of redundant materials to be disposed and finalise the procedures for their disposal
(vii) Space management planning
(viii) Scrap disposal
(ix) Record Management
(x) Identification of e-waste and ensure disposal as per guidelines of MoECF.
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