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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Manual Scavenging Flies in the Face of Swachh Bharat Mission -Pran K Vasudeva

Manual Scavenging Flies in the Face of Swachh Bharat Mission -Pran K Vasudeva

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published Published on Mar 18, 2016   modified Modified on Mar 18, 2016
-TheCitizen.in

NEW DELHI: Clean India "Swachh Bharat Mission" (SBM) is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. The campaign was officially launched on October 2, 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road.

It is projected as India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees including school and college students participated in this event.

It was performed in remembrance of Gandhi's words to ‘keep India clean’. Gandhi offered detailed comments in Navajivan dated 2-11-1919 on cleanliness and indicated its close relationship with good health: “No one should spit or clean his nose on the streets. In some cases the sputum is so harmful that the germs are carried from it and they infect others with tuberculosis. In some places spitting on the road is a criminal offence. Those who spit after chewing betel leaves and tobacco have no consideration for the feelings of others. Spittle, mucus from the nose, etc., should also be covered with earth”.

The programme plans to construct 12 crore toilets in rural India by October 2019, at a projected cost of 1.96 lakh crore. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the need for toilets in his 2014 Independence Day speech.

However, ‘manual scavenging’, which exists in a large number of states belies the SBM.

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TheCitizen.in, 18 March, 2016, http://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/NewsDetail/index/1/7170/Manual-Scavenging-Flies-in-the-Face-of-Swachh-Bharat-Mission


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