ICAR cleans around 8,000 sites and weeds out 13,000 files in Special Campaign 6.0

The Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) say they cleaned around 8,000 sites across the country in Special Campaign 6.0.

The campaign covered record management, digitisation, plantation, scrap disposal, electronic-waste management and better use of office space. More than 13,000 physical and electronic files were weeded out. It generated over ₹14 lakh in revenue and freed more than 4,000 square feet of space.

Beyond the offices

Staff held awareness camps on cleanliness, and several campuses ran free medical camps. Cleaning drives covered farms, fields and roads around campuses, and metal and plastic waste was kept separate from general waste. Safai Mitras, the sanitation workers, were honoured, which the release calls a continuing practice.

The release says cleanliness achievements exceeded the targets set. It also lists best practices from ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management in Hyderabad, including turning used flowers into compost and vermicompost and making vehicle requisitions digital.

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Source: official release by the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, issued through the Press Information Bureau, Government of India (06 NOV 2026 1:24PM by PIB Delhi). Read the full official text: DARE–ICAR Completes Special Campaign 6.0, Cleans Around 8,000 Sites Across the Country.