NEW DELHI: To give a fillip to Prime Minister’s pet Swachh Bharat project, the government is revamping a webpage for Swachh Bharat on its MyGov web portal and will publicise it to get more citizens to upload their work on cleanliness on this portal so as to turn into a single repository for the cause.This comes after the government realised that many citizens doing Swachh Bharat activities upload the same on their Twitter and Facebook accounts which the government is unable to collate. “The Urban Development Ministry will issue instructions to urban local bodies and volunteers to publicise the MyGov Swachh Bharat webpage so that more citizens take the cleanliness pledge through the portal and upload their work through before-andafter photographs as well as videos of cleaned locations there. This will make the cause more citizen focused,” a senior government official told ET.By bringing citizens on MyGov platform for Swachh Bharat campaign, the government also plans to reward the most prolific performers so as to motivate more people, the official said.So far, the MyGov Swachh Bharat webpage says only 309 Swachh Bharat challenges have been taken by citizens, 710 activities have been done, there are 1019 active participants and 9.46 lakh hours have been contributed for the cause. Officials told ET they believe much more acts have been done than this figures but it is not possible to collate the same from private Twitter and Facebook accounts of citizens.Citizens will be hence be encouraged to share their work on MyGov page and then cross share it on social platforms. The MyGov Swachh Bharat page enables citizens to take the Clean India pledge, upload “before”, “after” pictures as well as “activity videos” and opens up challenge to a maximum of nine persons for the same. PM Narendra Modi on October 2, 2014, had invited nine celebrities to take the Clean India pledge and asked them to invite more.The top performing participant on Swachh Bharat so far as per MyGov has been the NeuroScience Research Lab, Chandigarh, which last month invited ministers Smriti Irani and Upendra Kushwaha and education secretary VS Oberoi to take up the Swachh Bharat challenge.It is a good idea to motivate citizens to lend their full support to the campaign to clean India. The PM, who is been pushing the Swachh Bharat cmapgin, must ensure that the government spends money to create modern public health engineering and civic systems for regular collection, sorting and disposal of garbage. Investing in, say, bio-digesters can help convert municipal waste into renewable energy, and make for a cleaner and greener India.