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Swachh Bharat Mission Flagship Scheme

Swachh Bharat Mission Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin)

Swachh Bharat Mission – (Gramin) 2.0 was
On October 2, 2014, on the 145th birth anniversary of
Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Prime Minister launched on April 1, 2020 for a period of next 5
Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission.
years to sustain the ODF status in rural areas.
n Ensured dignity, security and empowerment of women. This includes directly making all villages clean
n 12 crore toilets constructed, realizing the dream of free from by ensuring solid and liquid waste management.
open defecation.
More than 4,31,350 villages have declared
n Separate toilets for boys and girls in almost all schools. themselves as ODF Plus i.e. more than 71% of the
Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) villages are ODF Plus.

1,40,881 crore is the estimated cost of
Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0 has been SBM-Gramin 2.0 implementation
launched on October 1, 2021 for a period of five years Rs
with a vision of achieving Garbage Free Status for all
cities through 100% source segregation, door to door
collection and scientific management of all fractions
of waste.
1,41,600 Crore is the estimated
Rs. implementation cost of SBM-U 2.0
62.81 90,000
In

Lakh household Wards there are 100%
toilets and 6.36 Lakh door-to-door waste
community toilets have collection facility 2,25,066 3,64,464
been constructed In In

villages arrangements villages provision of liquid
for solid waste waste management made
management done
777 2,207

Gobardhan plants Plastic waste management
completed across units established
the country
Startups step in to provide sanitation solutions

The central government 244 startups were shortlisted, top
sought startup 30 10 winners were identified. Each
solutions for plastic of these startups will receive
Entries were
waste management, support of Rs 25 lakh under
received, out
mechanized solutions seed funding from French Tech, a French
of which 30
for sewer and septic government initiative.
startups were
tank cleaning, scientific
selected by a
processing of solid n The Government of India will provide
20-member
and liquid waste and financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh to the
jury in the first
transparency. remaining 20 startups.
phase.
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