2. April 1st 1999,
Govt. of India
restructured the
Comprehensive
Rural Sanitation
Programme and
launched the
Total Sanitation
Campaign
April 1st 2012,
TSC was
renamed as
Nirmal Bharat
Abhiyan by
Former PM
Manmohan
Singh
NBA was
restructured by
cabinet approval
on 24th
September 2014
as Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan.
It was launched
on 2nd October
2014.
3. “Has it ever pained us that our mothers and sisters have to defecate in open? Poor womenfolk of the
village wait for the night; until darkness descends, they can`t go out to defecate. What bodily torture
they must be feeling, how many diseases that act might engender. Can't we just make arrangements
for toilets for the dignity of our mothers and sisters?”
– PM Narendra Modi, Independence day 2014
“When the girl student reaches the age where she realises this lack of female toilets in the school she
leaves her education midway. As they leave their education midway they remain uneducated. Our
daughters must also get equal chance to quality education. After 60 years of independence there should
have been separate toilets for girl students in every school. But for the past 60 years they could not
provide separate toilets to girls and as result the female students had to leave their education midway.”
-PM Narendra Modi, Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, 2014
4. Launch Of SBA
Launched on 2nd October 2014, Same
day as Gandhi Jayanti the Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan is aimed to achieve an
Open-defecation free India by 2019
marking the 150th birth anniversary of
the father of our nation.
It is also started to create awareness
among the youth both in urban and
rural areas about the importance of
hygiene and cleanliness for healthy
lifestyle.
5. AIM
• Elimination of open defecation
• Eradication of Manual Scavenging
• Modern and Scientific Municipal Solid Waste
Management
• To effect behavioural change regarding healthy
sanitation practices
• Generate awareness about sanitation and its linkage
with public health
• Capacity Augmentation for ULB’s
• Household toilets, conversion of
insanitary latrines into pour-flush
latrines;
• Community toilets
• Public toilets
• Solid waste management
• IEC & Public Awareness
Mission
Components
7. Individual Household Latrines (IHHL)
• IHHL application forms allows people to apply for the construction of
latrines in their household.
• The applicants have to provide ID proof along with other details
mentioned on the Swachh Bharat website.
• This allows individuals to get direct access to seek their needs and
increases transparency of the mission.
• IHHL website - http://swachhbharaturban.gov.in/ihhl/
8. Sikkim with 100%
implementation of IHHL
is the highest followed
by West Bengal, Andhra
Pradesh and Gujarat.
Assam has the lowest
percentage of IHHL at
0.31% followed by
Jammu and Kashmir and
Manipur
9. Challenges
• Location of solid waste management plant is difficult. A
proper and clean technology/methodology for
degradation and recycling of solid waste has not been
developed so far in India.
• Most towns have been provided with partial sewerage
systems but very few have well designed sewage
treatment plant.
• People don’t use the toilets constructed for them. They
instead store cattle feed in the rooms and still practice
open defecation.
10. Game Changer
• In India insanitation is the main reason behind epidemic
diseases. By 02/10/2019 India will usher into Health for All
if Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is achieved.
• A sanitary environment is directly linked to India’s
standard of living. Poverty is half less painful in a clean
environment. Infact a clean environment is a basic need
like air and water.
Therefore, working towards achieving this mission would be
a game changer for our nation.
