plz tell cons of swachh bharat abhiyan for debate in my school?
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The need for maintaining right cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene in any community cannot be gainsaid. It is perhaps the most basic step towards keeping diseases at bay. Poor hygiene and cleanliness is one of the worst enemies of young children. The fact that diarrhoea and malnutrition are two leading causes of under-5 deaths in India substantiates this. It is therefore imperative to have sanitation and hygiene intact, both at personal and community level, to improve health of masses.
However, even several decades after independence, India has failed to achieve the requisite cleanliness levels. We often see open garbage dumps, overflowing drains, and open defecation taking place at numerous places. NGOs like Save the Children already have various Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects running in different parts of India through which it is working to improve the hygiene and sanitation status of lakhs of children and their communities. These NGOs run on donations from individuals supporting the cause.
To promote robust maintenance of cleanliness, the Government of India rolled its flagship scheme Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on October 2, 2014. The programme covers 4041 statutory towns of the country to clean their roads, streets and other public infrastructure. On the day of the launch, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself wielded broom and cleaned a public road. The Swachh Bharat campaign has been dubbed as the country’s biggest cleanliness drive ever. The President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee also requested every Indian citizen to participate in the campaign and spend a minimum of 100 hours in this drive annually. This campaign also garnered full support by the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Border Security Force, media houses and various civil society organizations.
A whopping 3 million Indian students and government employees took part in this event. With PM Narendra Modi being at the helm, the programme got a great kick-off and he was required to nominate 9 well-known personalities for the campaign. The personalities further nominated 9 more people, which formed a chain of people participating in the campaign. Since then it has been actively carried forward through the participation of many influential famous people from all walks of life.