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SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN ESSAY 8 (1400 WORDS – LONG ESSAY) 

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Introduction 
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 to the 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 October of 
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. There are various 
implementation policies and mechanisms for the programme including three important 
phases such as planning phase, implementation phase and sustainability phase. 
What is Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 
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 Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of Drinking Water and 
Sanitation accordingly. 
The first cleanliness drive (on 25th of September 2014) of this mission was started 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. 
Need of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan 
Swachh Bharat mission is very necessary to run continuously in India until it gets its goal. 
It is very essential for the people in India to really get the feeling of physical, mental, social 
and intellectual well being. It is to make living status advance in India in real means which 
can be started by bringing all over cleanliness. Below I have mentioned some points proving 
the urgent need of swachh bharat abhiyan in India: 
It is really very essential to eliminate the open defecation in India as well as making 
available toilets facility to everyone. 

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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. 
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 years till 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 (also called 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-

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