{"id":1212,"date":"2021-12-17T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/former-cricketer-sunil-gavaskar-congratulates-surat-for-being-the-second-cleanest-city-in-india\/"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:30:49","slug":"former-cricketer-sunil-gavaskar-congratulates-surat-for-being-the-second-cleanest-city-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/former-cricketer-sunil-gavaskar-congratulates-surat-for-being-the-second-cleanest-city-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar congratulates Surat for being the second cleanest city in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"card-box img-box\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"main-img\" src=\"\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"card-box\">\n<p><strong>Surat (Gujarat) [India], December 17 :<\/strong> Sunil Gavaskar, one of the biggest names in Indian cricket and arguably the greatest Indian batsman of all time, has congratulated Surat and its residents on maintaining the city\u2019s cleanliness and ranking as India\u2019s second cleanest city in the Swachh Bharat Survekshan.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Gavaskar speaking with a fan from Surat has gone viral in the city. Gavaskar expressed a strong desire to visit Surat and witness the people\u2019s and municipal corporation\u2019s efforts to keep the city clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate the people of Surat on maintaining cleanliness and remaining India\u2019s second cleanest city.\u201d I intend to visit Surat and personally congratulate the people of Surat on this achievement. \u201cI am looking forward to my visit to Surat,\u201d Gavaskar said in a brief video message.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v3.2&#038;appId=1732452170262278&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Surat (Gujarat) [India], December 17 : Sunil Gavaskar, one of the biggest names in Indian cricket and arguably the greatest Indian batsman of all time, has congratulated Surat and its residents on maintaining the city\u2019s cleanliness and ranking as India\u2019s second cleanest city in the Swachh Bharat Survekshan. A video of Gavaskar speaking with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeveningpost.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}