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समाचार-सार
Flagship Scheme Swachh Bharat Mission

Realising the dream

of Clean India

With more

than 10 Crore

toilets and 100
per cent open

defecation free

(ODF) villages,
the country is

more than ready

to take on the

challenges for a

Dirt-Free India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2, ow, be it building toilets at
2014, launched the Swachh Bharat Mission to homes or public toilets in the
bring the focus on sanitation and to accelerate N urban areas, the rate of success

efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage. is more than the target. The success
rate for building domestic toilets has
The mission was implemented as a nation-wide reached 105 per cent. In the case of
campaign aimed at making rural areas free from community and public toilets, it has
open defecation by 2019 through mass scale achieved 117 per cent results.
behaviour change, construction of household- The Prime Minister exhorted an
owned and community-owned toilets and entire nation on August 15, 2014 to
establishing mechanisms for monitoring toilet celebrate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th

construction and usage. The ambitious project is birth anniversary on October 2, 2019
now a huge success with the country declaring as making India dirt-free and to make
itself ‘open-defecation free’ (ODF) on October 2, villages open defecation free (ODF) by
constructing toilets at homes in villages.
2019 by building over 100 million toilets in the This resolve by the Prime Minister has
rural India now become a mass movement across

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