The 'Chhota Bheem - Swachh Bharat Run' game is available on Google Play store. | Photo Credit: YouTube

New Delhi: The 17th Lok Sabha elections are just around the corner. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will look to retain power and maintain its consolidation at the Centre while the opposing ‘grand alliance’ led by the Congress will attempt at returning to power after five years.

In the past four-and-a-half years of rule at the Centre, the National Democratic Alliance government has come up with a plethora of schemes in their bid to uplift the nation and make it a cleaner, greener environment. While some are yet to see the light of the day, some have brought out a tremendous change in the way we live our lives today.

One such scheme is ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, a personal initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Swachh Bharat initiative has led to a massive campaign to make India a clean country. From waste management to garbage segregation to keeping pollution under control to constructing public toilets, Swachh Bharat has been a harbinger of change as far as cleanliness is concerned.

The initiative, however, has got an amusing fan in children’s cartoon character ‘Chota Bheem’. PM Modi on Saturday shared the cartoon show’s latest game called ‘Chhota Bheem - Swachh Bharat Run’.

As per the description on Google Play store, the game has ‘Chota Bheem’, the comic superhero, running through the cities with a broom and cleaning waste on streets.

The description says: “Swachh Bharat is an endless runner game packed with challenges but with a universal message — to keep India clean. Run through cities like Mumbai, Jaipur, Delhi collecting dumps and wastes with Chhota Bheem to make India clean and green. You got to be careful and quick to overcome the reflex challenging obstacles on your way to the mission of Swachh Bharat.”

The makers call it “an inspiration for children to take up the values of clean living and clean India”.

PM Modi lauded the initiative on social media platform Twitter and said thanked the makers for ‘strengthening the team of Swachh Bharat’.

“Thank you Chhota Bheem for strengthening the team that is fulfilling the dream of a Swachh Bharat. This valuable support will surely motivate more youngsters to join the movement,” the Prime Minister wrote.

छोटा भीम का बड़ा समर्थन!



Thank you Chhota Bheem, for strengthening the team that is fulfilling the dream of a Swachh Bharat.



This valuable support will surely motivate more youngsters to join the movement. https://t.co/vjPU50DSoJ — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 26, 2019

According to the official Swachh Bharat website, as many as 9 crore household toilets have been built in India since the inception of the scheme on 2 October 2014, along with an accomplishment of 5,47,741 open defecation-free villages, 600 open defecation-free districts and 27 open defecation-free states.