2. • Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a cleanliness campaign
run by the government of India and initiated by
the Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also called as the Clean
India Mission or Clean India drive or Swachh
Bharat Campaign
• It is a national level campaign run by the Indian
Government covering 4041 statutory towns to
make them clean.
• This campaign involves the construction of
latrines, promoting sanitation programmes in the
rural areas, cleaning streets, roads and changing
the infrastructure of the country to lead the
country ahead.
3. • This campaign was officially launched by the
Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 145th birth
anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi on 2nd of
October in 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.
• The government of India has aimed to make
India a clean India by 2nd of October 2019 (means
150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi)
through this campaign.
4. Objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan:
• Construction of individual, cluster and community toilets.
• To eliminate or reduce open defecation. Open defecation is
one of the main causes of deaths of thousands of children
each year.
• Not only latrine construction, the Swachh Bharat Mission will
also make an initiative of establishing an accountable
mechanism of monitoring latrine use.
• Public awareness will also be provided about the drawbacks
of open defecation and promotion of latrine use.
• Proper, dedicated ground staff will be recruited to bring about
behavioural change and promotion of latrine use.
5. • For proper sanitation use, the mission will aim at
changing people’s attitudes, mindsets and behaviours.
• Villages to be kept clean with Solid and Liquid Waste
Management.
• Solid and liquid waste management through gram
panchayats.
• To lay water pipelines in all villages, ensuring water
supply to all households by 2019.
• To make India Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by
2019, by providing access to toilet facilities to all.
• To provide toilets, separately for Boys and Girls in all
schools by 15.8.2015.
• To provide toilets to all Anganwadis
6. Swachh Bharat Mission: Facts and Figures
• Project Cost: Rs. 1,96,009 crore
• Project Start Date: 2nd October 2014
• Project Estimated End Date: 2nd October 2019
• Ministries Involved in Project: Ministry of rural
development, ministry of urban development, ministry
of drinking water and sanitation, Public Sector
Undertakings ( PSUs), corporations, NGOs, state
governments etc.
• Purpose of Project: To make India a filth-free country in
five years, to construct community and public toilets in
rural and urban areas, to provide running water supply,
to treat waste water, to keep roads, pavements and
localities clean etc.
7. Swachh Bharat Mission: Urban Areas
• The mission aims to cover 1.04 crore households, provide 2.5
lakh community toilets, 2.6 lakh public toilets, and a solid
waste management facility in each town.
• Under the programme, community toilets will be built in
residential areas where it is difficult to construct individual
household toilets. Public toilets will also be constructed in
designated locations such as tourist places, markets, bus
stations, railway stations, etc.
• The programme will be implemented over a five-year period
in 4,401 towns. Of the Rs 62,009 crore likely to be spent on
the programme, the Centre will pitch in Rs 14,623 crore. Of
the Centre’s share of Rs 14,623 crore, Rs 7,366 crore will be
spent on solid waste management, Rs 4,165 crore on
individual household toilets, Rs 1,828 crore on public
awareness and Rs 655 crore on community toilets.
8. Swachh Bharat Mission: Gramin Areas
• The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan has been restructured into the Swachh Bharat
Mission (Gramin.
• Under the mission, One lakh thirty four thousand crore rupees will be
spent for construction of about 11 crore 11 lakh toilets in the country.
• Technology will be used on a large scale to convert waste into wealth in
rural India in the forms of bio-fertilizer and different forms of energy.
• The mission is to be executed on war footing with the involvement of
every gram panchayat, panchayat samiti and Zila Parishad in the country,
besides roping in large sections of rural population and school teachers
and students in this endeavor.
• As part of the mission, for rural households, the provision for unit cost of
individual household latrine has been increased from Rs 10,000 to Rs
12,000 so as to provide for water availability, including for storing, hand-
washing and cleaning of toilets.
• Central share for such latrines will be Rs 9,000 while state share will be Rs
3,000. For North Eastern states, Jammu & Kashmir and special category
states, the Central share will be 10,800 and the state share Rs 1,200.
Additional contributions from other sources will be permitted
9. As a common citizen of india,I can conclude that if the Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan is successful then it will be financially beneficial
for all the citizens of india as follows:
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan will help in generating employment
through tourism and boost india’s GDP.
• Improve in the health conditions of all citizens and helps to ease
burden on current health facilities.
• Focus towards the use of clean technology i.e non polluting in
nature.
• Helps to increase in individual productivity by healthy body and
healthy mind.
• Increase in foreign direct investment
• Cleaning industry eyes 40% growth after PM’s Swachh
Bharat Abhiyaan
• The special emphasis on the Clean India Campaign will benefit the
poor. As it is mostly poor people who get affected due to the dirty
surroundings,"