The father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi had said that, Sanitation is more important than

Independence during his time before the independence of India. He was well aware of the bad and
unclean situation of the India. He had emphasized the people of India a lot about the cleanliness and
sanitation as well as its implementation in the daily lives. However, it was not so effective and failed
because of the incomplete participation of people. After many years of independence of India, a
most effective campaign of cleanliness is launched to call people for their active participation and
complete the mission of cleanliness.
The President of India, Pranab Mukherjee has said in June 2014 while addressing the Parliament
that, For ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation a Swachh Bharat
Mission will be launched. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150 th birth anniversary to
be celebrated in the year 2019. In order to fulfill the vision of Mahatma Gandhi and make India an
ideal country all over the world, the Prime Minister of India has initiated a campaign called Swachh
Bharat Abhiyan on the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi (2 nd of October 2014). This campaign has the
target of completion of mission till 2019 means 150th birthday anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi.
Through this campaign the government of India would solve the sanitation problems by enhancing
the waste management techniques. Clean India movement is completely associated with the
economic strength of the country. The birth date of the Mahatma Gandhi is targeted in both, the
launch and completion of the mission. The basic goals behind launching the Swachh Bharat Mission
are to make the country full of sanitation facilities as well as eliminate all the unhealthy practices of
people in daily routines. The first cleanliness drive in India was started on 25 th of September in 2014
and first initiated by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi by cleaning the road.
The completion of this mission would indirectly draw the attention of business investors in India,
enhance the GDP growth, draw tourists attention from all over the world, bring variety of sources of
employment, reduce health costs, reduce death rate, and reduce lethal disease rate and many more.
Clean India would bring more tourists and enhance its economical condition. The Prime Minister of
India has requested to every Indian to devote their 100 hours per year for the cleanliness in India
which is very sufficient to make this country a clean country by 2019. Swachh Bharat cess is also
started to get some fund for this campaign. Everyone has to pay extra .5% tax (50 paise per 100
rupee) on all the services in India.

Objectives of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

The objectives of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan include the following
Construct individual, cluster and community toilets.
Eliminate or reduce open defecation. Open defecation is one of the main causes of
deaths of thousands of children each year.
Construct latrines and work towards establishing an accountable mechanism of
monitoring latrine use.
Create Public awareness about the drawbacks of open defecation and promotion of
latrine use.
Recruit dedicated ground staff to bring about behavioural change and promotion of
latrine use.
Change peoples mindset towards proper sanitation use.
Keep villages clean.
Ensure solid and liquid waste management through gram panchayats.
Lay water pipelines in all villages, ensuring water supply to all households by 2019.

Funds Allocation
This project is expected to cost over Rs. 2 lakhs crore. Fund sharing between the
Central and State Governments and Urban Local Bodies is allocated in the ratio of
75:25. It has been officially stated that for North Eastern and special category states,
the allocation of funds is in the ratio of 90:10. To give a boost to the project, the
government has sought financial and technical support from the World Bank. Also, all
big corporates and private organisations are asked to join the movement as part of
their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative.

It is a politics free campaign and inspired by the patriotism. It is

launched as a responsibility of the each and every Indian citizen
to make this country a Swachh country. This campaign has
initiated people globally towards the cleanliness. Teachers and
students of the school are joining this Clean India Campaign
very actively with great fervour and joy.

Conclusion
We can say swachh bharat abhiyan, a nice welcome step to the clean and green India till 2019. As
we all heard about the most famous proverb that Cleanliness is Next to Godliness, we can say
surely that clean India campaign (swachh bharat abhiyan) will really bring godliness all over the
country in few years if it is followed by the people of India in effective manner. So, the cleanliness
activities to warm welcome the godliness have been started but do not need to be ended if we really
want godliness in our lives forever. A healthy country and a healthy society need its citizens to be
healthy and clean in every walk of life.