Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (13120020)
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (13120020)
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (13120020)
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 thats 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.
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:
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.
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 cleanliness
and hygiene. It has also been planned to hold half an hour cleaning campaign in the
schools twice a week involving the cleanliness activities by the teachers, students,
parents and community members.
Swachh Bharat cess: Swachh Bharat cess is an improvement in the service tax by .
5% on all the services in India. It was started by the Finance Ministry to collect some
fund from each and every Indian citizen for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in order to
make it a successful campaign. Everyone has to pay extra 50 paise for each 100
rupees as service tax for this cleanliness campaign.
Conclusion
We can say swachh bharat abhiyan, a nice welcome step to the clean and green
India till 2019. As we all heard about the most famous proverb that Cleanliness is
Next to Godliness, we can say surely that clean India campaign (swachh bharat
abhiyan) will really bring godliness all over the country in few years if it is followed
by the people of India in effective manner. So, the cleanliness activities to warm
welcome the godliness have been started but do not need to be ended if we really
want godliness in our lives forever. A healthy country and a healthy society need its
citizens to be healthy and clean in every walk of life.
References
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org./wiki/Swachh_Bharat_Abhiyan .
2. https://swachhbharat.mygov.in .
3. https://sbm.gov.in/sbm/ .
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