‘Swachha Bharat Abhiyan’ (Clean India Campaign) : A Step Towards Social Accountability

Manasi Gore,Meenal Annachhatre

doi:10.26417/ejms.v7i2.p60-69

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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), India’s first prime minister, remarked, “The day everyone of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress” "Cleanliness is next to godliness". (Mahatma Gandhi) "(Indians) defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover." So wrote V.S
Government of India launched its 'Total Sanitation Campaign' (TSC) in 1999 aiming at universal rural sanitation by 2012, the responsibility resting with the Panchayat Raj Institutions and the state and central governments acting as facilitators
► For FY16-17, more than 50% of the cities and towns targeted under SBM-urban and rural areas. SBM (Urban) have achieved

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Introduction

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964), India’s first prime minister, remarked, “The day everyone of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress” "Cleanliness is next to godliness". (Mahatma Gandhi) "(Indians) defecate on the beaches; they defecate on the hills; they defecate on the river banks; they defecate on the streets; they never look for cover." So wrote V.S. Government of India launched its 'Total Sanitation Campaign' (TSC) in 1999 aiming at universal rural sanitation (access to toilets) by 2012, the responsibility resting with the Panchayat Raj Institutions and the state and central governments acting as facilitators It covered health education, sanitary facilities in schools and anganwadis and use of appropriate technology for sustainable community-managed systems focused on solid and liquid wastes. Cleanliness and Gandhiji: Mahatma Gandhi had realized early in his life that the prevalent poor state of sanitation and cleanliness in India and the lack of adequate toilets, in the largely rural India, needed as much attention as was being devoted toward attainment of swaraj He said that unless we "rid ourselves of our dirty habits and have improved latrines, swaraj can have no value for us." [CW 14:56-58] Along with the struggle for India's independence, he led a continuous struggle for sanitation, cleanliness, and efficient management of all categories of wastes throughout his public life (1893 – 30.1.1948), in South Africa and in India. According to him sanitation is social transformation and is as, if not more, important than economic transformation

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