short essay on swachh bharat in English
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Swachh Bharat Mission, a Clean India Campaign because of its necessity and big responsibility of all of us. It is a mass movement run by the government to make India, Clean India by 2019. Mahatma Gandhi, who is also known as Bapu or father of the nation, has always emphasised people on swachhta for their healthy and prosperous life however could not became so effective because of the improper co-operation of the people.
Keeping in mind about India’s cleanliness and health, Indian government has launched a campaign called swachh bharat mission on 2nd of October in 2014 (145th birth anniversary of Bapu) and aimed to be completed till 2nd of October 2019 (150th birth anniversary of Bapu). This mission is implemented to cover all the rural and urban areas for maintaining the cleanliness all over India. The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said while launching the mission that, “I do not make any claim that only the newly elected government has done everything. All governments have done something or the other to achieve cleanliness in the country; I greet all of them for this. Swachh Bharat mission is beyond politics. It is inspired by patriotism and not politics.”
Cleanliness is not limited to any person or place, it is the responsibility of everyone to clean themselves as well as their surroundings to really make India a clean India in near future. It is the combined responsibility of 1.2 billion people living in the country. In order to make this campaign an effective and successful mission, Indian Prime Minister has planned to make a chain of nine people. On the day of launch of mission, PM has nominated nine Indian personalities to involve in the mission in their own areas in order to initiate this campaign. He also requested to them to again call another nine people to join the campaign to continue this chain till the message of campaign reaches to everyone in all corners of country.
The aim of this campaign is to maintain cleanliness and hygiene all around the India by completely eliminating the open defecation in country. The maintenance of cleanliness and hygiene in India would bring the great opportunity in country to enhance its economic status by improving the tourism to India as well as keeping its citizens healthy and happy. Cleanliness would keep everyone happy and healthy in all aspect physically, mentally, socially and intellectually by reducing the chance of diseases.