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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | We are nowhere near the sanitation target -Sushmita Sengupta

We are nowhere near the sanitation target -Sushmita Sengupta

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published Published on Aug 15, 2015   modified Modified on Aug 15, 2015
-Down to Earth

The maiden Independence Day speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from the premises of the Red Fort last year, was full of how to make India clean by 2019. Soon after, the PM launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) in October, with construction of toilets as its main component. Unlike the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a similar scheme launched by the UPA government, SBM delinked itself from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). This was done because the government found that the construction of the number of toilets had slowed down in 2012-13 and 2013-14, after the convergence of two programmes in 2012.

With this, the Modi government also set some targets of construction of toilets in both households and schools.

According to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, the target for households was set at 98 million more toilets by 2019. This means 67,000 toilets in a day or 46 toilets in a minute. The number, however, does not go well with the past performance of the government which says that under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, in the financial year 2014-15, 11 toilets were constructed in a minute.  

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Down to Earth, 14 August, 2015, http://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/will-india-get-freedom-from-open-defecation--50725


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