A PROJECT WORK ON

“ SWACHH BHARAT MISSION”

Guided by : Submitted by :
Prof.Upendra Singh Gayathri
B. Tech CSE
2406193
Group - 6
ABSTRACT :
Mahatma Gandhi who laid great emphasis on cleanliness. He himself
said that Sanitation is more important than Independence. He wanted
India to be a clean India. He very well had a clear understanding of the
pathetic condition of the rural people. It's been 67 years of
Independence, and even today, more than half of India's population does
not have proper toilets. Considering this fact in mind, the present
Government of India wants to fulfill the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and
usher a clean India by 2019, which will mark the 150th birth anniversary
of Mahatma Gandhi.To make India a filth-free country in five years, to
construct community and public toilets in rural and urban areas, to
provide running water supply, to treat waste water, to keep roads,
pavements and localities clean etc.Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, with the
help of the Government of India, political parties, NGOs, corporations
and with active people's participation, isslated to be completed in 2019.
INTRODUCTION:
Mahatma Gandhi had rightly said, “Sanitation is more important than
Independence”. He was aware of the pathetic situation of Indian rural
people at that time and he dreamt of a clean India where he emphasised
on cleanliness and sanitation as an integral part of living. Unfortunately,
after 67 years of independence, we have only about 30% of the rural
households with access totoilets. President Pranab Mukherjee, in his
address to Parliament in June 2014,said, “For ensuring hygiene, waste
management and sanitation across the nation a “Swachh Bharat
Mission” will be launched. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on
his 150th birth anniversary to be celebrated in the year 2019”.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is started by the government to make India
a completely clean India. Clean India was a dream seen by the Mahatma
Gandhi regarding which he said that, “Sanitation is more important than
Independence”. During his time he was well aware of the poor and dirty
condition of the country that’s why he made various efforts to complete
his dream however could not be successful. As he dreamt of clean India
a day, he said that both cleanliness and sanitation are integral parts of
healthy and peaceful living. Unfortunately, India became lack of
cleanliness and sanitation even after 67 years of independence.
According to the statistics, it has seen that only few percentage of total
population have access tothe toilets. It is a programme run by the
government to seriously work to fulfill the vision of Father of
Nation(Bapu) by calling the people from all walks of life to make it
successful globally.This mission has to be completed by 150th birth
anniversary of Bapu (2nd Octoberof 2019) in next five years (from the
launch date). It is urged by the government to people to spend their only
100 hours of the year towards cleanliness in their surrounding areas or
other places of India to really make it a successful campaign.
What Is Swachh Bharat Mission :
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national cleanliness campaign established
by the Government of India. This campaign is covering 4041 statutory
towns in order to clean roads, streets, and infrastructure of the India. It is
a mass movement has run to create a Clean India by 2019. It is a step
ahead to the Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of Swachh Bharat for healthy and
prosperous life. This mission was launched on 2nd of October 2014
(145th birth anniversary of Bapu) by targeting its completeness in 2019
on 150th birth anniversary of Bapu. The mission has been implemented
to cover all the rural and urban areas of the India under the Ministryof
Urban Development and the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
accordingly.
The first cleanliness drive (on 25th of September 2014) of this mission
wasstarted by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi earlier to its
launch. This mission has targeted to solve the sanitation problems as
well as better waste management all over the India by creating sanitation
facilities to all.
Objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan:
Swachh Bharat mission is very necessary to run continuously in India
until itgets its goal. It is very essential for the people in India to really get
the feelingof physical, mental, social and intellectual well-being. It is to
make living statusadvance in India in real means which can be started by
bringing all overcleanliness. Below I have mentioned some points proving
the urgent need ofswachh bharat abhiyan in India:

1. Construct individual, cluster and community toilets.

2. Eliminate or reduce open defecation. Open defecation is one of the
main causes of deaths of thousands of children each year.
3. Construct latrines and work towards establishing an accountable
mechanism of monitoring latrine use.
4. Create Public awareness about the drawbacks of open defecation
and promotion of latrine use.
5. Recruit dedicated ground staff to bring about behavioural change
and promotion of latrine use.
6. Change people’s mindset towards proper sanitation use.
7. Keep villages clean.
8. Ensure solid and liquid waste management through gram
panchayats.
9. Lay water pipelines in all villages, ensuring water supply to all
households by 2019.
10. It is necessary to improve the quality of life of people in rural areas.
11. It is to bring private-sector participation to develop sanitary facilities
allthrough the India.
12. It is to bring the dream of Bapu to really come true.
Swachh Bharat Mission in Urban Areas:
The Swachh Bharat mission of urban areas aims to cover almost 1.04
crore households in order to provide them 2.6 lakhs of public toilets, 2.5
lakhs of community toilets together with the solid wastes management
in every town. Community toilets have been planned to be built in the
residential areas where availability of individual household toilets is
difficult and public toilets at designated locations including bus stations,
tourist places,railway stations, markets, etc. Cleanliness programme in
the urban areas (around 4,401 towns) have been planned to be
completed over five yearstill 2019. The costs of programmes are set like
Rs 7,366 crore on solid waste management, Rs 1,828 crore on public
awareness, Rs 655 crore on community toilets, Rs 4,165 crore on
individual household toilets, etc.Programmes which have been targeted
to be completed are complete removal of open defecation, converting
unsanitary toilets into flush toilets,eradicating manual scavenging, bring
behavioral changes among public,and solid waste management.
Gramin Swachh Bharat Mission:
Gramin swachh bharat mission is a mission implementing
cleanliness programmes in the rural areas. Earlier the Nirmal Bharat
Abhiyan (alsocalled Total Sanitation campaign, TSC) was established by
the Government of India in 1999 to make rural areas clean however now
it has been restructured into the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin). This
campaign is aimed to make rural areas free of open defecation till 2019
for which the cost has been estimated is one lakh thirty four thousand
crore rupees for constructing approximately 11 crore 11 lakh toilets in
the country. There is a big plan of converting waste into bio-fertilizer and
useful energy forms. This mission involves the participation of gram
panchayat, panchayat samkti and Zila Parishad. Following are the
objectives of Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) :
1. To improve quality of life of people living in the rural areas.
2. Motivate people to maintain sanitation in rural areas to complete the

vision of Swachh Bharat by 2019.

3. To motivate local working bodies (such as communities, Panchayati
Raj Institutions, etc) to make available the required sustainable
sanitation facilities.
4. Develop advance environmental sanitation systems manageable by
the community especially to focus on solid and liquid waste
management in the rural areas.
5. To promote ecologically safe and sustainable sanitation in the rural
areas.
Swachh Bharat-Swachh Vidyalaya Campaign:
The Swachh Bharat Swachh Vidyalaya campaign runs by the Union
Ministry of Human Resource Development having same objectives
of cleanliness in the schools. A big programme was organized under it
from 25th of September 2014 to 31st of October 2014 in the Kendriya
Vidyalaya and Navodaya Vidyalaya Sangathans where lots of cleanliness
aspects in the school assembly by the students, teachings of Mahatma
Gandhi related to cleanliness, and hygiene topics, cleaning activities (in
the clasrooms, libraries, laboratories, kitchen sheds stores, playgrounds,
gardens, toilets, pantry areas, etc), cleaning of statue in the school area,
speech over the contribution of great people, essay writing competition,
debates, art, painting, film, shows, role plays related to hygiene including
other many activities on clenliness and hygiene. It has also been planned
to held half an hour cleaning campaign in the schools twice a week
involving the cleanliness activities byb the teachers, students, parents
and community members.
Let’s Make Swachh Bharat Abhiyan a Success:
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rightly asserted that Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan should be a combined effort of both the Government as
well as the people. We hope that the Swachh Bharat Mission does not
become another Nirmal Bharat Abhian started by the previous
Government in 1999 with the same mission but was far from a success.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan should not be a mere re-branding exercise.
There is nodoubt about the fact that change begins at home. Every citizen
of the countryshould take it upon himself to make this campaign a
success rather than waitingfor the government to do. Let us also hope
that we can change the attitude of the people towards hygiene and be
the change we want to see.

Conclusion :
I learnt that change is possible only if you seek it. Especially the rural
India needs more of awareness and encouragement from people
dedicated to promote sustainable development. People ini rural areas
are easy to understand, more humble and responsive than urban
population. If you are siccessful in convincing them about which is the
right way to do things and how it would benefit all the community, then
they will themselves come forward to join any initiative and work
towards its success.

“Everyone must be his own Scavenger.”