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Universal Sanitation Coverage through Swachh Bharat Mission

Do you think Universal Sanitation Coverage Will be a Milestone in the Journey of Swachh Bharat Mission?

Universal Sanitation Coverage

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" (Clean India Mission) on 2nd October 2014 - Mahatma Gandhi's 145th birth anniversary. It was a nationwide campaign from 2014-19 to clean up the nation.

 It will cover all rural and urban areas. The urban component of the mission implemented by the Ministry of urban development and the rural component of the mission implemented by Ministry of Drinking water and sanitation.

The main objectives of the mission are - Open Defecation Free India by 2019 and achieve universal sanitation, Remove manual scavenging system, Healthy sanitation practices by bringing behavioural changes in people.

During 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the Map of India as Open Defecation Free. In 60 months(2014-19), 600million people have able to access toilets.

The Indian government has built 10crore toilet over the nation. During the ceremony, the prime minister has taken the next mission Swachh Bharat Mission(SBM) 2.0 - focus on sustaining the achievement and stressed on removing single-use plastics by 2022 and optimum use of water as the next steps of this mission.

Mahatma Gandhi said, "Sanitation is more important than independence". SBM gave lots of changes among the people, but still, people have to educate ourselves and make our environment clean and hygiene. Even though GOI spend 1.64lakh crore on Swachh Bharat Mission, Economic survey 2018-19 says that 44% of the people are not able to access the toilet.

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