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It was launched as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, which aimed to make India clean and free of open defecation by 2 October 2019. The first survey was undertaken in 2016 and covered 73 cities (53 cities with a population of over a million, and all state capitals); by 2020 the survey had grown to cover 4242 cities and was said to be the ...
Swachh Survekshan 2017 was an extensive sanitation survey across 500 cities in India. The Ministry of Urban Development commissioned Quality Council of India to conduct this survey; to check the progress and impact of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched in 2014. It aims to foster a spirit of competition among the cities and offers a comprehensive ...
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages.
This is a list of Indian states and territories by the percentage of households which are open defecation free, that is those that have access to sanitation facilities, in both urban and rural areas along with data from the Swachh Bharat Mission (under the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation), National Family Health Survey, and the National Sample Survey (under the Ministry of Statistics ...
Kunwar Bai Yadav (died 23 February 2018, aged 106) [1] was a woman who lived in a village in Dhamtari district in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.In her old age, inspired by the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign), she sold seven of her goats to raise the money to build a toilet at her house.
English: A voluntary mass cleanliness drive was carried out at Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala on 02 October 2016 as part of Gandhi Jayanthi Celebrations and in continuation of the Swachh Bharath Abhiyan. All service personnel and civilian members of the station along with their family members participated wholeheartedly in cleaning and sprucing ...
An increasing trend has been seen in India with how many households have toilet facilities. Although the Indian government has built more toilets, Indians do not necessarily use them, and continue to openly defecate [5] [6] [7] for a variety of reasons - poor quality or non-functioning toilets, reluctance to deviate from cultural norms, poverty, and government corruption.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission) CSS MoDWS, MoHUA: 2014 Sanitation, Behaviour Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) launched in 1986. In 1999 it became the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). [89] Multiple objectives including elimination of open defecation, addressing manual scavenging, and good sanitation and waste related ...