SWACHH BHARAT MISSION (CLEAN INDIA)

(1) Swachh Bharat MisSion is a massive mass movement that seeks to create a clean India by 2019 The father of our nation, Mahatma Gandhi, always puts etnphas on cleanliness as cleanliness leads to a healthy and prosperous life. Keeping this in mind,the Indian Governmentlaunched the Swachh Bharat Mission on Octuber of 2, 2014. The mission will cover all rural and urban areas. The urban component of the mission was implemented by the Ministry of Urban Development, and rural component by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation.

(2) The mission aims to cover 101 crore households, provides 2.5 lakh communin. toilets, 2.6 lakh public toilets, and a solid waste management facility in cach tov Under the programme, community toilets will be built in residential areas wh it is difficult to construct individual household toilets. Public toilets will also constructed in designated locations, such as tourist places, markets, bus stations railway stations, etc. The programme will be implemented overa 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 I4,623 crore. Of the Centre's share of Rs14,623 crore, & Rs7,366 crore wil be spent on solid waste management, Rs 4.165 crore on individual houschold toilets Rs1,828 crore on public awareness and Rs 655 crore on community toilets.

(3) The programme includes eclimination of open defecation, conversion of unsanitary toilets to pour flush toilets, eradication of manual scavenging, municipal solid waste management and bringing about a behavioural change in people regarding healthy sanitation practices

(4) The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan has been restructured into the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). The mission aims to make India an open defecation-free country in five vears. Under the mission, a huge amount will be spent for the 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 form of bio-fertilizer and different forms of energy. The mission is to be executed on a 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 endeavour. in mind, the Indian gövernment launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on Oaober (5) As part of the mission, for rural households, the provision for unit cost of individual household totlet has been increased from ? Rs 10,000 to Rs 12,000 so as to provide water for storing, hand-washing and cleaning toilets. Central share for such toilets 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 Rs 10,800 and the state share will be 1,200. Additional contributions from other sources will be permitted.

(6) A 'Swachh Bharat Run' was organised at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on October 2. 2014. According to a statement from the Rashtrapati Bhavan, around 12500 people participated and the event was flagged off by President Pranab Mukherjee.Participants in the run included officers and staff of the Secretariat, the President's Bodyguard, Army Guard and Delhi Police as well as their families. NIT Rourkela Ph D students have made a short film on Swachh Bharat which conveyed the message that Swachh Bharat is not a one day event. It should be part of our life, only then we can achieve our goal of Swachh Bharat (Clean India).

(7) The Swachh Bharat Kosh (SBK) has been set up to facilitate and channelise individual philanthropic contributions and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds to achieve the objective of Clean India (Swachh Bharat) by the year 2019. The Kosh will be used to achieve the objective of improving cleanliness levels in the rural and urban areas, including the schools. The allocation from the Kosh will be used to supplement To incentivise contributions from individuals and corporate, modalities are being considered to provide tax rebates, wherever possible.

The program is not constrained to five years it is a life time commitment and surely duty of every citizen.

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