Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
| Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) | |
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| स्वच्छ भारत अभियान | |
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India + Cleanliness
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| Slogan |
एक कदम स्वच्छता की ओर One step towards cleanliness |
| Country | India |
| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Launched | 2 October 2014 Raj Ghat and associated memorials New Delhi |
| Website | swachhbharat |
| Status: Active | |
एक कदम स्वच्छता की ओर
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a campaign by the Government of India to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country's 4,041 statutory cities and towns.
The campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is India's largest ever cleanliness drive with 3 million government employees, and especially school and college students from all parts of India, participating in the campaign.
With effect from 1 April 1999, the Government of India restructured the Comprehensive Rural Sanitation Programme and launched the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which was later (on 1 April 2012) renamed Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (NBA) by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was restructured by Cabinet approval on 24 September 2014 as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was launched on 2nd October 2014, and aims to eradicate open defecation by 2019, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a national campaign, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns.
The government is aiming to achieve an Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing 12 million toilets in rural India, at a projected cost of ₹1.96 lakh crore (US$29 billion).Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the need for toilets in his 2014 Independence Day speech stating:
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?
Modi also spoke of the need for toilets in schools during the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir state elections campaign stating:
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