The Technology Of Toilets And The Imagination Of A ‘Clean India’
On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched a mass campaign called the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ (often abbreviated as SBM and loosely translated as Clean India Mission), a major objective of which is to make India ‗open defecation free‘ (hereafter ODF) by 2019. The genealogy of the SBM go...
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2020
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| Summary: | On October 2, 2014, the Government of India launched a mass campaign called the ‘Swachh
Bharat Mission’ (often abbreviated as SBM and loosely translated as Clean India Mission), a
major objective of which is to make India ‗open defecation free‘ (hereafter ODF) by 2019. The
genealogy of the SBM goes back to the centrally sponsored Rural Sanitation Programme (1986-
1999), followed by the Total Sanitation Campaign (1999-2012), which was replaced by the
Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (2012-2014). The rationale that has been suggested behind the
restructuring and scaling up of the previous mission is to thrust new life into the sanitation
programme in order to significantly improve upon the sanitation levels of the country and
achieve the goal of ODF India by a certain deadline. This date, the same as the date of launch, is
significant. In 2019, it would mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and for the
campaigners of the SBM, a ‗Swachh Bharat‘ would be a befitting tribute to the leader. |
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