Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national campaign by the Government of India, 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 cleaned the road. It is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India par
ticipated in this event. The components of the programme as listed in the SBM guidelines are: a) Construction of individual sanitary latrines for households below the poverty line with subsidy (80%) where demand exists. b) Conversion of dry latrines into low-cost sanitary latrines. c) Construction of exclusive village sanitary complexes for women providing facilities for hand pumping, bathing, sanitation and washing on a selective basis where there is not adequate land or space within houses and where village panchayats are willing to maintain the facilities. e) Total sanitation of villages through the construction of drains, soakage pits, solid and liquid waste disposal. f) Intensive campaign for awareness generation and health education to create a felt need for personal, household and environmental sanitation facilities
The campaign has been described as "beyond politics" and "inspired by patriotism
Specific objectives are:
* Elimination of open defecation
* Conversion of insanitary toilets to pour flush toilets
* Eradication of manual scavenging
* 100% collection and scientific processing/disposal/reuse/recycling of municipal solid waste
* A behavioural change in people regarding healthy sanitation practices
* Generation of awareness among citizens about sanitation and its linkages with public health
* Supporting urban local bodies in designing, executing and operating waste disposal systems
THANKS
SANDEEP KATARIA
CHIEF SANITARY INSPECTOR
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, PATHANKOT
