**Summary:**
The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions is preparing to launch Special Campaign 5.0 in September 2025, building on the success of previous nationwide cleanliness drives. This year's campaign, scheduled to run from October 2nd to October 31st, 2025, aims to institutionalize *Swachhata* (cleanliness) across all government offices using a saturation approach, strengthen record management practices, and minimize pendency within Ministries, Departments, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs), and field offices.
The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) organized a preparatory meeting, chaired by Secretary V. Srinivas, with over 200 senior officials from 84 Ministries/Departments, including representatives from the Ministries of Posts, Coal, Education, and Culture. The campaign will be implemented in two phases: a Preparatory Phase from September 16th to 30th, 2025, followed by the Implementation Phase in October.
Special Campaign 5.0 will focus on cleanliness within government entities, including attached/subordinate/autonomous offices, overseas missions and posts, public sector banks, defence establishments, and public spaces of Railways and Posts. It also targets reducing pendency in Parliamentary Assurances, VIP References, State Government References, Inter-Ministerial References, PMO References, and Public Grievances, while ensuring adherence to record management guidelines under CSMOP 2022.
The campaign's progress will be monitored via the Special Campaign Digital Monitoring Portal (SCDPM), with weekly reviews chaired by the Secretary, DARPG. Since its inception in 2021, the Special Campaign has expanded to cover over 1.2 million offices, freeing 696.27 lakh sq. ft. of office space, disposing of 137.86 lakh files, and generating revenue of ₹3296.71 crore from scrap disposal. The launch of Special Campaign 5.0 will be conducted by the Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Dr. Jitendra Singh.
Key Entities Referenced
Special Campaign 5.0: A nationwide cleanliness and pendency reduction drive to be conducted in Government offices.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions: The government ministry responsible for personnel matters, public grievances, and pensions.
Dr. Jitendra Singh: Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions who will launch Special Campaign 5.0.
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG): The department under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, responsible for administrative reforms and public grievance redressal, organizing the preparatory meeting for Special Campaign 5.0.
Shri V. Srinivas: Secretary, DARPG, who chaired the first preparatory meeting for Special Campaign 5.0.
Swachhata: A campaign focused on cleanliness in government offices.
CSMOP 2022: Record management guidelines to be adhered to during Special Campaign 5.0.
Special Campaign Digital Monitoring Portal (SCDPM): A digital platform used to monitor the progress of the Special Campaign, with weekly reviews chaired by Secretary, DARPG.
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Preparatory Meeting for Special Campaign 5.0 for
institutionalizing swachhata and reducing pendency
held
Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions to launch the
Preparatory Phase of the Special Campaign 5.0 in
September 2025
Nationwide Cleanliness Drive enters its fifth year with
renewed focus on Swachhata, Pendency Disposal
and Record Management
Building on the legacy of earlier Campaigns, Special
Campaign 5.0 aims to cover all Government offices
on a saturation approach
Posted On: 20 AUG 2025 6:31PM by PIB Delhi
The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) today organized the first
preparatory meeting for Special Campaign 5.0. The meeting was chaired by Shri V. Srinivas, Secretary,
DARPG and attended by more than 200 senior officials from 84 Ministries/Departments including the
Ministries of Posts, Coal, Education, Culture, etc.
Special Campaign 5.0 will be conducted from 2nd October to 31st October, 2025 with the objective of
institutionalising Swachhata in all Government offices with a saturation approach, strengthening record
management and minimizing pendency across Ministries, Departments, PSUs and field offices. During the
meeting, DARPG presented the the Guidelines for Special Campaign 5.0. The Campaign will be implemented
in two phases – the Preparatory Phase from 16th to 30th September, 2025 and the Implementation Phase from
2nd to 31st October, 2025. The Special Campaign 5.0 would be launched by Dr. Jitendra Singh Minister of
State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions in September 2025.
Special Campaign 5.0 will focus on Swachhata in Ministries/ Departments, Attached/ Subordinate/
Autonomous offices, overseas Missions and Posts, Public Sector Banks, Defence Establishments, Public
Spaces of Railways/ Posts etc with a saturation approach,reducing pendency in Parliamentary Assurances,
VIP References, State Government References, Inter-Ministerial References, PMO References and PublicGrievances, as well as adherence to record management under CSMOP 2022. The progress of the Campaign
will be monitored through the Special Campaign Digital Monitoring Portal (SCDPM) with weekly reviews
chaired by Secretary, DARPG.
Since its inception in 2021, the Special Campaign has been implemented annually, covering over 12 lakh
offices, freeing 696.27 lakh sq. ft. of office space, disposing of 137.86 lakh files and generating revenue of
₹3296.71 crore from scrap disposal.
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NKR/PSM
(Release ID: 2158533)