Swachh Bharat Mission: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan completes 10 years of success; Dapugalu towards a hygiene free India Achi-News

Swachh Bharat Mission is one of the most important and popular campaigns in India. This campaign was started to make all the cities and towns of India clean. It was introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2 to honor Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of a clean India. When Narendra Modi came to power for the first term, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was conducted at the national level. Covering all towns, rural and urban. This campaign was implemented with the aim of making people aware of the importance of cleanliness. Today this campaign has successfully completed 10 years.

What are the objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched with many goals to make India cleaner and better. The campaign attracted not only the scavengers and the laborers but all the citizens of the country. This message reached all the citizens of the country. The aim of the campaign is to build sanitation facilities for every household. The aim of this campaign is to get rid of open defecation, a common problem in rural areas.

Government of India is planning to increase many facilities including proper drainage system to the houses of all the citizens. It encourages cleanliness among citizens. Similarly, central government strives to make people aware of health and education through awareness programmes. The main objective is to teach citizens to dispose of waste wisely.

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Does India need a Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

Cleanliness campaigns like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan are needed to remove dirt and create cleanliness in India. This campaign is important for many good reasons including better health among citizens. As the majority of people in India live in rural areas, there is a need to create more awareness among them. Because, generally people in these areas do not have proper toilet facilities. They go to fields or roads to defecate. This practice creates many sanitary problems for citizens. So, this Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will help in improving the living conditions of these people.

The campaign also reached the rural level

In other words, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan helps in proper management of waste. When we dispose of the waste properly and recycle the waste it will develop the country. As its main focus is rural area, it improves the quality of life of rural citizens. Most importantly, it improves public health through its objectives. India used to be one of the dirtiest countries in the world, a situation that it can be said did not exist before this campaign. So a cleanliness campaign like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is needed for India.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan facilitates making India clean. If all the citizens come together and participate in this campaign, India will develop very soon. Moreover, sanitary conditions in India will improve. More and more tourists visit India every year. If there is cleanliness, the number of tourists will also increase.

Swachh Bharat Yojana prevents 70 thousand infant deaths per year

Since the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan started, there have been major changes in the country. An international peer-reviewed scientific journal said the campaign contributed to preventing 60,000-70,000 infant and under-five deaths each year between 2014 and 2020.

The research paper was published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports and the study was conducted by researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, the University of California, and Ohio State University. The researchers studied data from nationally representative surveys covering 35 states and union territories in 600 districts over a period of 20 years.

Reduction in infant and child mortality

The study highlighted the link between the increase in access to toilets built under the “Swachh Bharat Mission” and the reduction in infant and under-five mortality between 2000 and 2020. One of the objectives of the campaign is to remove open faeces in villages by providing toilets in every rural home.

About 120 million (12 crore) toilets have been built across rural and urban India in the last nine years, Union Minister Hardeep Puri said.

What did the study say?

The study found that a 10 per cent improvement in toilet access at district level reduced infant mortality by 0.9 points and among children under five by 1.1 points.

Historically, access to toilets and child mortality have had an inverse relationship in India, the study authors said. The authors note that the broad benefits of increased toilet access include improved safety for women, economic savings from lower medical costs, and overall improvements in quality of life.

PM Modi participates in ‘Swachhta He Seva 2024’ program

It has been 10 years today since the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan started. In this context, Prime Minister Modi hailed the spirit of the nation for making cleanliness a ‘people’s movement’ and said that we can make India clean only through sustained efforts.

Speaking at an event held in New Delhi as part of the 10th anniversary of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, he said such efforts would take the campaign to new heights. Over the past 10 years, millions of Indians have made this campaign their personal goal. After a decade of this journey, I appreciate the contribution of all the countrymen, sanitation workers, religious leaders, sportsmen, celebrities, NGOs and the media. You all have made the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a people’s revolution, said the Prime Minister at the ‘Swachhta He Seva 2024’ program held at Vigyan Bhavan.

10,000 crore for sanitation projects.

On the occasion, he announced the release of Rs 10,000 crore for sanitation projects. As part of Mission Amrit, water and sewage treatment plants will be set up in different cities. Be it the work related to Namami Ganga or the ‘Goverdhan’ plant to produce biogas from garbage, all these will take the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan to new heights, he said.

Cleaning Ganga as part of Swachh Bharat

Under Amrut and Amrut 2.0, development work worth Rs 6,800 crore will be undertaken for projects aimed at improving/improving urban water and drainage systems. It also includes 10 projects worth Rs 1550 crore to improve water quality and waste management in Ganga basins and 15 compressed biogas plant (CBC) projects under National Swachh Ganga Mission and Rs 1332 crore under Gobar Dhan scheme.

The 2024 service is cleanliness

Swachhate Ye Seva (Swachhta Hai Seva) 2024 whose concept, ‘Swabhav Swachhta, Sanskar Swachhta’, will once again unite and unify the nation in its commitment to personal cleanliness, public health and environmental sustainability. Swachhtaye Seva (Swachhta Hai Seva) 2024 Under this, more than 19.70 lakh programs have already been completed with the participation of more than 17 crore people. Conversion has already been achieved in around 6.5 lakh cleanliness target units. About 1 Lakh Safai Mitra Safety Camps have also been organized, benefiting more than 30 Lakh Safai Karmacharis. In addition, 45 lakh saplings have already been planted under the One Tree in the Name of the Mother (Ek Ped Ma Ke Nam) campaign.

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