The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) is a national campaign launched in 2014 to clean streets, roads, and infrastructure in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the campaign to make cleanliness a priority and inspire millions of government employees and students to participate. The campaign aims to provide sanitation facilities and clean drinking water to all Indians by 2019 as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birthday.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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
and
b.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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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 .

9. 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.

10. Census Data on Sanitation in Rural are as
Households with access to Toilets
Year %
1981 1
1991 9
2001 22
2011 32.70
Households with access to Toilets
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
o Census Data
o NSSO Estimations

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

17. Organize different
awareness
programmes on
cleanliness and
sanitation
Construction of
toilets in schools
and public places
Programmes to
eliminate open
defecation

18. 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