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A child’s painting of children cleaning their surroundings inside a globe, with buildings, trees and a water drop around it, on the ₹5 stamp.
Swachh Bharat
India Post issued two stamps, ₹5 and ₹25, and a ₹30 miniature sheet on 2 October 2016, Gandhi Jayanti, for the Swachh Bharat Mission. Launched on 2 October 2014 as a national movement, the mission aimed at a clean India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary in 2019, through toilets in every home, waste management and sanitation in towns and villages. The stamps were designed by Alka Sharma from paintings submitted by participants; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 308,250 of each and 0.1 million sheets.
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