Indian officials ordered to take up brooms on day off

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Clean India campaign from Delhi's largest sweeper colony

India's four million federal government staff and millions of schoolchildren have taken up brooms and dusters to spearhead a drive to clean up the country.

The nationwide campaign has been launched on 2 October, the birthday of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.

The day is traditionally celebrated as a national holiday, but this year civil servants and pupils in government-run schools do not have time off. Instead they are busy sweeping away the dirt and dust in their offices and schools - and even cleaning the toilets.

And many of the civil servants are not happy about it.