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the country. Now, after getting all
the villages in ODF category, the The success of Swachh Bharat Mission is not
Government is moving towards mine. I don’t claim this success, it belongs to
ODF+ which aims for categorizing the people. The dream of Swachhta cannot
well maintained and clean toilets be achieved even if 100 Mahatma Gandhis
private as well as public in the or 1000 Narendra Modi come together. But if
cities and villages. Apart from that 125 crore Indians come together that dream
to make railway lines clean, the can easily be fulfilled
provision of Bio toilets have been
introduced in trains. Prime Minister Narendra Modi

To motivate people about the Facts speak
movement, the Prime Minister
through his proactive approach n Toilets at homes n Public Toilets
always talks about the success Target 58,99,637 Target 5,07,589
of Swachh Bharat Mission on
national as well as at international Actual 62,16,114 Actual 5,94,658
forums. Be it from the ramparts of 105% of the target 117 % of the target
the Red Fort on Independence Day n More than 60,000 toilet blocks from over 290 cities, including 500
celebrations or at the Howdy Modi toilet blocks of NHAI are shown on the Google map
programme in the US, the Prime n The Swachhta App launched by the Government, was downloaded
Minister has always mentioned the by more than 1.55 Crore citizens
success of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
and the role of people of the country Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) How toilets in
households
in making it a huge success. n 10,65,56,165 household toilets built increased - IHHL
(in%)
The Prime Minister always October 2, 2014 38.7
believed in setting up examples since October 2, 2014 2015-2016 50.85
for the citizens to engage them n 6,03,177 ODF villages
in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. 2016-2017 64.92
He launched the campaign from n 2,62,736 ODF Gram Panchayats 2017-2018 84.19
Valmiki Sadan in New Delhi on n 706 ODF districts 2018-2019 98.28
October 2, 2014, by picking up 2019-2020 100
a broom and cleaning the street n 36 ODF States/UTs 2020-2021 100
thereby encouraging people to
follow suit. It became a mass Swachh Bharat (Urban) Garbage-free cities with 5- star ratings
movement with people as well Open Defecation Free (Urban) State District City
as celebrities participating in the Total cities Certified Chhattisgarh Surguja Ambikapur
campaign regularly. (ODF+)
Talks about clean India even 43,722 1632 (37%) Gujarat Rajkot Rajkot
in foreign countries ODF declared Gujarat Surat Surat
At Howdy Modi programme on 4323 (99%) Certified Karnataka Mysore Mysore
(ODF ++)
September 22, 2019, the Prime Certified cities 489 (11%)
Minister said that in the past 70 MP Indore Indore
years, the rural sanitation of the 4204 (96%) Maharashtra Thane Navi Mumbai
country was at poor 38.70 per cent.

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