Question

how will you correlated swachh Bharat Abhiyan with crop production and Management(50 words only)

Answer 1

Keeping cities clean is essential for keeping their residents healthy. Our health depends not just on personal hygiene and personal nutrition, but critically also on how clean we keep our cities and their surroundings. The proliferation of dengue and chikungunya are intimately linked to the deteriorating state of public health conditions in our cities. The good news is that waste management to keep cities clean is now getting attention through the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. However, too much of the attention begins and stops with brooms and dustbins, extending at most to collection and transportation of mixed waste to some distant or not so distant place, preferably out of sight.

The challenge of processing and treating different streams of solid waste, and safe disposal of residuals in scientific landfills, has received much less attention in municipal solid waste management than is warranted from a health perspective. If we do not rise to the occasion to manage the waste that we generate and fail to create clean and healthy cities, we will face many more man-made disasters, such as we have seen in recent months in Deonar, Bellandur and Ghazipur. One of the problems is that instead of focusing on waste management for health, we have got sidetracked into “waste for energy”. In the process, we are opting for financially and environmentally expensive solutions such as incineration plants which are highly capital-intensive. While the National Green Tribunal (NGT) does not allow incineration of mixed waste, nor of any compostables or recyclables, enforcement is a challenge, and the danger to health from toxic emissions looms large.

Answer 2

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also called as the Clean India Mission or Clean India drive or Swachh Bharat Campaign. It is a national level campaign run by the Indian Government to cover all the backward statutory towns to make them clean. This campaign involves the construction of latrines, promoting sanitation programmes in the rural areas, cleaning streets, roads and changing the infrastructure of the country to lead the country ahead. This campaign was officially launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 145th birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi on 2nd of October in 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi.