Union minister K J Alphons today called upon the youths to make India a better place by keeping the surroundings clean and thus promote tourism.
"India, with 5,000 years old civilisation, amazing culture, beaches, back waters, hill stations and philosophical school of thoughts, is lagging behind in tourism," Tourism minister Alphons said.
During a function here, he said that the entire nation is a "garbage dump" and it is the people only who are dumping garbage so they themselves have to take the responsibility of keeping their neighbourhood clean.
"If everyone takes the onus, the country would become clean; civilisation is within us and if we don't demonstrate it then there is no civilisation," said the minister.
The tourism minister called upon youths to carry in their hearts a mission to make India a better place and to take steps to ensure that in the next five years, over 25 million come to the country every year.
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