Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
(English: Clean India Mission on india and abbreviated as SBA or SBM for "Swachh Bharat Mission") is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.
The campaign
was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime
Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. Modi said that the best
memorial to Mahatma Gandhi would be to achieve a "Clean India" by
2019, his 150th birth anniversary. It is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive
and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India
participated in this event.[4][5] The mission was started by Prime Minister
Modi, who nominated nine famous personalities for the campaign, and they took
up the challenge and nominated nine more people and so on. It has been carried
forward since then with people from all walks of life joining it.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
is a nationwide cleanliness campaign run
by the government of India and initiated by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi
on 2nd of
October in 2014 on 145th birthday anniversary of the Mahatma
Gandhi. This campaign has been launched to fulfill the aim of cleanliness all
over the India. The Prime Minister has requested the people of India to involve
in the Swachh Bharat Mission and promote others to do the same for leading our
country as a best and clean country of the world. This campaign was first
initiated by the Narendra Modi himself by cleaning the road on the way going to
launch the campaign.
The campaign of Swachh Bharat is a biggest ever cleanliness
drive of the India during the launch of which around 3 million government
employees and students from schools and colleges were participated. On the day
of launch, Prime Minister has nominated the names of nine personalities of India
to initiate the campaign in their own areas and own decided dates as well as
promote the campaign to common public. He also had requested to all nine
personalities to invite other nine people from their own end individually to
participate in this event as well as continue this chain of inviting nine
people until the message reach to each and every Indian people.
He also requested that every Indian should take this campaign as
a challenge and try his/her best to make this campaign a successful campaign ever.
The chain of nine people is like a branching of the tree. He requested common
people to involve in this event and upload the video or images of cleanliness
over internet on the various social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc
so that other people may get promoted and motivated to do the same in their own
area. In this way India can be a clean country.
Youth
Initiatives
CLEAN-India being a platform for environmental action for the
youth has a strong focus on giving hands on experience to young
environmentalists and green innovators. Thus, we have programmes specially
designed to challenge these youngsters
Cut The Carbon
Cut The Carbon is an initiative that guides schools/institutions
to reduce their Carbon footprint using a do-it-yourself approach, creating
Ambassadors of change who assess carbon emissions and come up with measures to
promote a greener low carbon lifestyle.
Clean and Green Drive
A fun project for Schools, Colleges, Colonies and Office
Complexes to green their surroundings and manage their waste within their
campus itself!
Water and Sanitation
We create Water and Sanitation Ambassadors in schools, colleges
and communities who are trained to advocate good WASH behavior. Our Student
Ambassadors drive our work to communities, spreading WASH to thousands of
families.
- It is really very essential to eliminate the open defecation in India as well as making available toilets facility to everyone.
- It is needed in India to convert the insanitary toilets into flushing toilets.
- It is necessary in order to eradicate the manual scavenging system.
- It is to implement the proper waste management through the scientific processes, hygienic disposal, reuse, and recycling of the municipal solid wastes.
- It is to bring behavioral changes among Indian people regarding maintenance of personal hygiene and practice of healthy sanitation methods.
- It is to create global awareness among common public living in rural areas and link it to the public health.
- It is to support working bodies to design, execute and operate the waste disposal systems locally.
- It is to bring private-sector participation to develop sanitary facilities all through the India.
- It is to make India a clean and green India.
- It is necessary to improve the quality of life of people in rural areas.
- It is to bring sustainable sanitation practices by motivating communities and Panchayati Raj Institutions through the awareness programmes like health education.
- It is to bring the dream of Bapu to really come true.
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