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newspaper article on swacch bharat abhiyaan

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Answered by RwS
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also called as the Clean India Mission or Clean India drive or Swachh Bharat Campaign. ... Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a Swachh Bharat mission led by the government of India to make India a clean India.
Answered by mansi440
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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.

How it is being managed

This mission to clean India’s cities and villages is estimated to cost around Rs. 62,009 crore. It’s the most celebrated scheme of the recent time which aims to combat dirtiness and generate awareness among the citizens of India about the importance of sanitation and hygiene. Millions of people, celebrities, politicians, academic institutions, NGOs, and local community centres across the country have joined this cleanliness initiative of the government by organising cleanliness drives across the country. From Bollywood actors to the sportspersons, government officials to Armymen, industrialists to spiritual leaders, all are willingly contributing towards making India clean.

The Union Ministry of Urban Development is managing the urban component of the SBM, while the Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation is handling the rural component of the mission. Scores of schools are also organising frequent cleanliness campaigns to spread awareness about hygiene through plays and other modes.

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