An article on topic "clean india campaign" in 100 - 120 words
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Historical Development:
The Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC)
In 1999, the Union Government rolled out the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). Its objective was to spread awareness among the rural people and generation of demand for sanitary facilities. The scheme was implemented with emphasis on community-led initiatives. The government provided financial incentives to the families which were Below Poverty Line (BPL). The government assistance was also extended for construction of toilets in the primary schools, the Anganwadi centres and the Community Sanitary Complexes (CSC).
The Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA)
The Government of India also launched the Nirmal Gram Puraskar (NGP) to recognise contributions in this field. NGP became a success which prompted the Government to rename CSC as the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA). Its objective was to accelerate the sanitation coverage in the rural areas. This scheme was handled by the Ministry of Rural Development.
Under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, the government adopted the community-centric strategies. The demand driven approach continued highlighting awareness creation and demand generation for sanitary facilities in houses, schools. It also emphasised on a cleaner environment.
Emergence of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
However, programmes like the total sanitation campaign and the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan failed to achieve the desired targets due to planning weaknesses, wastages, and irregularities. According to the CAG estimation, more than 30 percent of individual household latrines were defunct/non-functional for reasons like poor quality of construction, incomplete structure, and no-maintenance. It states that though the conceptual framework keeps changing from supply driven to demand driven and finally to ‘saturation and convergence’ approach, the lessons learned and experimentations do not seem to have made much impact on the sanitation status in the country. We need to learn from the previous mistakes.
With the introduction of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in 2014, the Government restructured the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) with two sub-Missions: Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). The focus now is to achieve a clean, defecation-free India by the year 2019.
Conclusion: It would be a fitting tribute to the Father of Nation on his 150th Birth Anniversary, if we can improve the levels of cleanliness in the country and make it Open Defecation Free. But the success of Swachh Bharat Mission depends on the society as a whole with every citizen of the country required to contribute towards improving the levels of cleanliness in the country.
Article on Swachh Bharat Mission 3 (600 words)
As per estimates, poor hygiene and sanitation facilities cost India 600,000 lives annually due to diarrhoea and other such diseases. As per Government data, India is home to 450 million people who do not have access to toilets and defecate in the open. Not only this, lack of toilets also exposes one third of country’s women to the risk of sexual assault.
Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) or Clean India Mission was launched by Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, 2014, at Rajghat in New Delhi. This national campaign, initiated by the Government of India, covers 4041 statutory towns across the country and aims to make the streets, roads and infrastructure clean by October 2, 2019, i. e. Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.
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Clean India Campaign
By - Ankita
'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' is very apt and true, but not for everybody. 'Clean India Campaign' was started by our honourable Prime Minister 'Mr. Narendra Modi' with an objective to make our country clean. It has not been as effective as it should have been. There are many reasons for this, such as people followed it initially but forgot about it gradually. Many institutions had also started cleaning their surroundings and continued this process. Students also took a keen interest in this campaign and did it religiously but, on the other hand, it was not as successful as it would have been. People had participated in the campaign just for the sake of formality. As far as their own areas were concerned, they were not bothered about the cleanliness. Such campaigns can only be successful if a common man and a student would take some measures. A common man should start cleanliness from his home first. While eating by the roadside or during a picnic, one should not litter on the road or outside the bus or car; rather he should carry an extra bag to keep the wrappers, inside that bag. Moreover, a student can make others aware of the importance of cleanliness with the help of paintings, small plays, etc. It will help people to understand the need for making their areas clean. With the help of such measures, the cleanliness campaigns could be successful.