Swachh Bharat Mission - One step towards Cleanliness

1. Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan
• One step towards cleanliness
• एक कदम स्वच्छता की ओर

2. India’s Filth Figures
*According to Census 2011, the Urban Slum figures
 68 million people live in slums
 34% have no toilets at their homes
 44.3% have open drainage in slums
 1,88,500 tones of waste generated by India per
day
 8,500 tones waste generated by Delhi per day
 0.2-0.6 kg garbage generated per head per day in
India

3. Introduction
 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is intended at accelerating
the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage.
 It aims at achieving Open Defecation Free (ODF)
nation and a Swachh Bharat (Clean India) by 2nd
Oct, 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi.
 Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is being implemented by
the Ministry of Urban Development in Urban
areas and by the Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation in Rural areas.

4. Objectives
 Elimination of open defecation
 Eradication of Manual Scavenging
 Modern and Scientific Municipal Solid Waste
Management
 To effect behavioral change regarding healthy sanitation
practices
 Generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage
with public health
 Creating an enabling environment for private sector
participation.

5. Public awareness
 Bring about a behavioral change in people.
 Generating awareness among citizens.
 Strengthening of urban local bodies to fulfill these
objectives.
 Creating an enabling environment for private sector
participation.

6. Findings of the SBA
 Sanitation coverage : 39% to 85% in rural areas.
 4.9 Crores household toilets and over 4 lakh school
toilets (mainly funded by PSUs) constructed.

7. Findings of the SBA
 States of Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala,
Haryana, and Uttarakhand have been declared
ODF.
 207 districts and more than 2.5 lakh villages have
been declared as ODF.
 10 states to be ODF by March 2018, on track for
ODF India by Oct,2019.