General Studies-I , 17/09/2018

‘Swachhata Hi Seva’ movement

Government launched ‘Swachhata Hi Seva Movement’September 15, 2018.

As we all know that Mahatma Gandhi’s dream was clean and cure India. He also insisted in various ways to clean India not only for the sake of cleanliness but also for better life.

Today it is very important to set a goal and also discuss the various effects of clean India , we also need to motivate our youth for this nationalist movement.

What is campaign?

Swachhata Hi Seva campaign Coordinated by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, the convening Ministry for the Swachh Bharat Mission.

This year on 2 October there will be completion of 150 year of mahatma Gandhi birth anniversary. So we should join hands together to spread about Sanitation and also help to achieve India’s target of Open Defecation free India.

Many celebrities Such as Mr. Amitabh Bacchan , Ratan tata and Sadguru came ahead to contribute in this Unique Programme.

One thing is very important , that every Indians should Contributes in this work, earlier it was tradition that a special cast people will clean and upper cast people will not participate in Sanitation. This type of notion need to be change, other bad traditions need to abolish which are hindrance in the path of Cleaning Motherland.

What was background ?

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a campaign which was launched on 2 October 2014, and aims to eradicate open defecation by 2019, and is a national campaign, covering 4,041 statutory cities and towns. Its predecessors were the “Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan” and before that the “Total Sanitation Campaign”. The mission was divided into two parts — urban and rural.

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