Swachh Bharat Abhiyan :Clean India Mission
Indian Government Scheme: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national sanitation campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, covering 4041 statutory towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.
The Swachh Bharat movement was established to address sanitation and waste management issues in India by promoting sanitation throughout India.
The scheme is based on the concept of rural development of Mahatma Gandhi which revolved around creating model villages for transforming swaraj (self rule) into su-raj (good governance).
The objective is to create a holistic development of all adopted villages by the MPs in all aspects – human, personal, social, economic and environmental development, including provision of basic amenities, services, security and good governance.
In his 2014 Independence Day speech, PM modi emphasized “Clean India” and said the movement was related to India’s economic activity.
The main purpose of this campaign is to create sanitation facilities for all. It aims
to provide all rural households with a toilet by 2019.
The First Clean Drive Started 25 September 2014.
The clean-up campaign, just before the official launch of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, was held from the 25th
Sep to 23 Oct in all offices up to the level of panchayat.
As part of the awareness campaign, the Delhi Government also covered more than eight lakh ration card holders by sending SMS to their mobile numbers.
The campaign officially started on 2 October 2014 in Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi paved the way himself.
India’s largest clean campaign with 3 million civil servants and high school and college students participating.
Prime Minister Modi, who nominated 9 celebrities for the campaign, started the mission, and they were challenged to name 9 more (like a tree branch) and so on.
Objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan:
The Goal of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan include the following:
1. Construct individual, cluster and community toilets.
2. minimize open loads. Open liberation is one of the major causes of death for thousands children year after year.
3. Try to establish accountability mechanisms for creating toilets and monitoring the use of toilets.
4. Increase public awareness of the short comings of open defecation and encourage toilet use.
5. Hire dedicated ground staff to change behavior and promote toilet use.
6. Change how people think about good hygiene.
7. Keep the town clean.
8. Ensure solid and liquid waste management with gram panchayat.
9. Install water pipes in all towns to provide water to all households by 2019.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Run:
‘Swachh Bharat Run’ was organized at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on 2 October 2014. According to a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan around 1500 people participated and the event was flagged off by President Pranab Mukherjee . Participants in the run included officers and sice, as well as their families.
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