essay on 'swachh bharath-effective or not?" in 300 words
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Ours is a very large country, and similar levels of success in such campaigns cannot be achieved uniformly everywhere. Be it success or be it failure, high level marketing and general awareness about a Swachh Bharat is what we have always needed.
When it comes to cleanliness, we are not acknowledged as one globally. Our slums are internationally recognized. Proper sanitation infrastructure, especially in rural areas, is something which needs immediate attention.
It was the Mahatma’s birthday and our PM did this.In his own way, he showed us that it is time we started taking responsibility in our own hands. Stop looking out for someone to do the dirty job for us.
One primary objective is setting up of community toilets to eliminate open defecation in rural areas. People are to be coerced to use toilets instead of open defecating.
Advertisements are good for a start.But we will have to do better. After all, the government has planned for 100% access to sanitation for all rural households by 2022.
BPL families are being provided with monitory incentives for constructing toilets.
Coming to some facts and figures now,
Almost 2.48 crores of toilets have been built already. [1]
60 districts and 113,000 villages have been declared as ODF (open defecation free). Previously, only 5 districts featured in the list.
Among the states, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala have already joined the list of ODF. Four more to follow soon.
Total Sanitation Coverage throughout India has risen to 57.56% up from 42.02% in October 2, 2014, the day Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched.
Many private and public sector companies like TCS, Mahindra, Rotary International are actively involved in the construction of toilets.
From my own personal observations, trains have become cleaner. The cleaning staff have become more efficient and more approachable.
The World bank has approved a loan of 1.5 billion dollars to aid the sanitation objective.