Swachh Bharat Abhiyan(Green and Clean City)

Swachh School, Swachh Home,

Swachh City Then Swachh Bharat

Cleanliness Starts From You

Mission Swachh Bharat (Clean India)

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Swachh Bharat or Swachh

Bharat Abhiyan (Campaign Clean India) is a national level campaign by the Government of India covering 4041 statutory towns to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.

This campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself wielded broom and cleaned a road. The campaign is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and schools and colleges students of India participated in this event.

Mahatma Gandhi said“Sanitation is more important

than independence”.

He made cleanliness and sanitation an integral part of the

Gandhian way of living. His dream was total sanitation for all.

The concept of Swachh Bharat is to pave access for every person to:-

a.Sanitation facilities including Toilets, Solid and Liquid Waste Disposal Systems, village cleanliness

andb.Safe and adequate drinking water

supply.We have to achieve this by 2019 as a befitting tribute to Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th. Birth anniversary.

The PM Leading by Example

The PM set an example for the country when he went to the Mandir Marg

Police Station & cleaned the dirty area himself with a broom. He shared the video on social media and invited 9

other people to join the #MyCleanIndia movement.

The invitees of the PM for the Clean India movement including Mridula Sinha, Sachin Tendulkar, Baba Ramdev, Shashi Tharoor, Anil Ambani, Kamal Haasan, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Team Tarak Mehta ka Oolta Chashma showed strong support for the initiative &accepted the challenge on social media inspiring others to join the mission.

The Invitees Laud PM’s Clean India Movement & Pledge To Join In

Prime minister said that people may laugh at him for talking toilets and cleanliness from the historic Red Fort but the cleanliness of public places, tourist destinations , temples and offices will be the priority of his government .

India is a home to 1.21 billion people, about one-sixth of the world’s population. The rural sanitation coverage in the country was as low as 1% at the beginning of the 1980s. With the launch of Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) in the year 1986 and the introduction of the Total Sanitation Campaign in 1999, the coverage rose to 22% as per 2001 census. According to the Census 2011, about 72.2% of the Indian population in 16.78 crore households stay in around 638,000 villages. Out of this, only 5.48 crore households (32.7%) had access to toilets which means that 67.3% of the rural households in the country still did not have access to sanitation facilities. Later as per the Baseline Survey, 2012- 2013, carried out by the Ministry through the States, 40.35% rural households have been found to have access to toilets. This Ministry goes by Baseline Survey data as this survey covers 100% rural population and also captures names of households with access and without access which Census 2011 does not share.

Year %1981 11991 92001 222011 32.70

Year %

49th Round (1993-94) 14.20

58th Round (2002-03) 23.70

65th Round (2008-09) 34.80

69th Round (2012-13) 40.60

Households with access to Toilets

Households with access to Toiletso NSSO

Estimations

Census Data on Sanitation in Rural are aso Census Data

What is the goal?By 2019, Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary, every city, town and village is to be ‘clean’, that is, they will have pucca toilets for all, safe drinking water, waste disposal systems and clean roads & lanes

What will it cost?Estimated cost is humungous-in all, Rs.1.96 lakh cr, of which Rs. 1.34 lakh cr will be spent to build 11 crore pucca loos in villages and Rs.62,000cr to build 5.1 lakh community and public loos in urban areas. No budget given for toilet maintenance.

Who will fund all this?Now, that’s not very clear. Govt says it will spend Rs.14,623cr on urban toilets, but doesn’t divulge the figure for rural loos. Babus say the remainder will come from state govts, PPP projects and budgetary allocations over 5 yrs. Some PSUs & pvt companies have pledged financial support for the project.

What will happen on Thursday?Every minister and babu will take on the cleanliness project, many with broom in hand. Modi will lead the campaign. Most of central Delhi will be shut for motorists.

Who’s the unintended beneficiary?AAP, of course. Its netas are supposed to join the campaign, brandishing jhadus, the party’s symbol.

Cleanliness is Next to...: Life's Most Essential Cleaning Tasks

Organize different awareness programmes on cleanliness and sanitation

Construction of toilets in schools and public places

Programmes to eliminate open defecation

Make people aware about the health issues raised because of open defecation

Solid and liquid waste management

And take all these initiatives to the rural India also

Pledge with us to make a stink free India

This is our country please help KEEP IT CLEAN and ORDERLY Cleanliness needn’t involve costliness Give 100 hours in a year to cleanliness

Please maintain CLEANLINESS and be HEALTHY

Lets all joint hands to make our environment and country clean

"Jai Hind"