Swachh Bharat Mission: Creating jobs, transforming lives
3 months, 1 week ago

Swachh Bharat Mission: Creating jobs, transforming lives

Hindustan Times  

In 2014, India took a collective pledge to ensure cleanliness, health, and hygiene for all its citizens through the Swachh Bharat Mission. By promoting sustainable waste management practices, the mission has empowered communities, improved public health, and sparked a cultural shift towards hygiene. Swachh Bharat Mission {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} While the impact of SBM on public health has been widely documented, its contribution extends far beyond. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Looking forward, the operation and management of SBM models and infrastructure present vast employment potential, particularly for plumbers, sanitation workers, and skilled labourers in the plastic waste management industry. Organisations like ISC, with support from the private sector, are poised to further scale these initiatives, ensuring that sanitation and waste management continue to drive community empowerment and economic growth.

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Andhra Pradesh: Officials Launch Swacha Sundara Initiative
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Andhra Pradesh: Officials Launch Swacha Sundara Initiative

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: In association with the Swachha Andhra Corporation, the Parvathipuram Manyam district administration conducted a workshop on sustainable waste management at the Government Junior College on Wednesday. The initiative, named “Swacha Sundara Parvathipuram,” aims to transform the region into a model of cleanliness and environmental sustainability. The workshop, focusing on integrated and sustainable solid and liquid resource management, gathered a …

Transforming Rural India: A Decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission
3 months, 1 week ago

Transforming Rural India: A Decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission

Hindustan Times  

A decade of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) has yielded unprecedented gains in India, with the country achieving a significant milestone of 100% rural sanitation coverage. The mission, launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, has transformed India's sanitation landscape, leading to a significant reduction in open defecation and improved public health. The SBM has also had a positive …

Building on the gains of Swachh Bharat Mission
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Building on the gains of Swachh Bharat Mission

Hindustan Times  

Swachh Bharat Mission is set to complete 10 years. But now the Mission faces the more slippery world of solid and liquid waste management, compared to the provision of low flush, twin-pit toilets across needy communities. Only 248 of the cities have broadly reached the parameters of Garbage Free Cities covering aspects of collection, segregation, storage, scientific processing, cleaning of …

Centre to identify two lakh dirty spots for cleanliness in time-bound manner
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Centre to identify two lakh dirty spots for cleanliness in time-bound manner

The Hindu  

The Centre will identify two lakh very difficult and dirty spots across the country and ensure their time-bound and result-oriented transformation as part of its flagship Swacchha Bharat Mission. These spots to be called Cleanliness Target Units would be identified and mapped through a portal, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal said on Friday. The campaign includes mega …

Tiruchi Corporation launches drive to clean waterbodies in the city
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Tiruchi Corporation launches drive to clean waterbodies in the city

The Hindu  

The Tiruchi City Corporation has undertaken a mass cleaning to restore major waterbodies in the city as part of the People’s Movement for Clean Cities initiative. Volunteers of the drive removed waste, mostly plastic and aquatic weeds, lying in the bathing ghat at Amma Mandapam, Uyyakondan canal near Kuzhumani during the exercise. The initiative is aimed at promoting awareness among …

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope
11 months ago

In Surat’s turnaround in sanitation, a story of hope

Hindustan Times  

The ascendance of Surat as the cleanest city in India, announced last month, has multiple narratives. First, it makes the chaotic task of city sanitation an achievable goal for India’s 5,000 urban local bodies. The cleanest city tag is no longer the exclusive preserve of Indore, which lifted the crown with predictable regularity soon after Swachh Survekshan was instituted by …

Revolutionising rural sanitation: India's Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen
1 year ago

Revolutionising rural sanitation: India's Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen

Hindustan Times  

India's sanitation landscape is undergoing a transformative change, with the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Phase II marking a remarkable achievement: five lakh+ villages have been declared Open Defecation Free Plus. The key to the success of Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen Phase I was an effective communication strategy that included mass awareness campaigns, behaviour change communication, and the formation of local …

Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms
1 year, 1 month ago

Embracing Incremental Steps for Monumental Sanitation Reforms

News 18  

To understand the role of sanitation on our behavior and lives, it is pertinent to know about the broken window theory. The Bharat story, it’s tryst with building a movement around sanitation through Swachh Bharat Abhiyan stems out as a tale of triumph in the war field of mind and habits. The Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, initiated by our Honorable Prime …

Swachh Bharat Diwas 2023: ITC reaffirms commitment towards ‘Garbage Free India’
1 year, 3 months ago

Swachh Bharat Diwas 2023: ITC reaffirms commitment towards ‘Garbage Free India’

Live Mint  

Indian conglomerate company ITC Limited, headquartered in Kolkata, on 30 reaffirmed its unwavering commitment towards this year’s Swachh Bharat Diwas theme of ‘Garbage Free India’ by strengthening its sustainable circular economy initiatives. Speaking about its flagship initiatives, the firm that ‘Wellbeing out of Waste’ programme has covered 2.2 crore citizens in over 55 lakh households, 57 lakh school children and …

Like Swachh Bharat, BMC Should Launch ‘Clean Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai’ Campaign: Guardian Minister Lodha
1 year, 4 months ago

Like Swachh Bharat, BMC Should Launch ‘Clean Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai’ Campaign: Guardian Minister Lodha

News 18  

Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Guardian Minister of Mumbai suburban area, has written to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation chief Iqbal Singh Chahal, demanding that a ‘Clean Mumbai, Healthy Mumbai’ campaign involving citizens be started on the lines of Swachh Bharat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched the ‘Swachh Bharat’ campaign on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in 2014 with a vision to make …

City-wide inclusive sanitation: Why it is pathway to scaling sustainable and safe sanitation systems
1 year, 11 months ago

City-wide inclusive sanitation: Why it is pathway to scaling sustainable and safe sanitation systems

Firstpost  

Universal access to safely managed sanitation is a human right. Enabling equitable and sustainable service delivery for urban poor communities Ensuring toilet access and improving sanitation services for low-income communities emerged as a priority in Trichy. Customised first-aid training for sanitation workers and DSOs, including sensitisation sessions on the safe disposal of fecal sludge, were also conducted to build capacity …

SBM: Collective effort for scaling up social change
2 years, 3 months ago

SBM: Collective effort for scaling up social change

Hindustan Times  

It has been eight years since the Government of India launched the celebrated Swachh Bharat Mission or Clean India Mission to accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage in the country. The unique convergence and collaborative effort would help attain Water, Sanitation and Hygiene service delivery, which are amongst the key components of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin and the …

Swachhata Diwas, Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi's dream of a clean India
2 years, 3 months ago

Swachhata Diwas, Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi's dream of a clean India

Firstpost  

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has been one of the most ambitious public initiatives India has ever seen Launched as a campaign in 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is India’s largest cleanliness drive to date with three million government employees, school students, and college students from all parts of India participating in 4,041 statutory cities, towns and …

India needs a united front to fix its garbage problem
2 years, 3 months ago

India needs a united front to fix its garbage problem

Hindustan Times  

As the much-celebrated Swachh Bharat Mission completes eight years of unprecedented focus on safe and inclusive sanitation, the path has changed significantly from where it started on October 2, 2014. An estimated 2,200 legacy dumpsites, strewn like ulcers on the country’s urban landscape, hold 160 million tonnes of waste and are waiting to be scientifically dismantled. Urban expansion has caused …

Swachh Bharat or Modi@72: The Prime Minister for Cleanliness on World Cleanup Day
2 years, 3 months ago

Swachh Bharat or Modi@72: The Prime Minister for Cleanliness on World Cleanup Day

Firstpost  

World Cleanup Day is an annual global social action campaign aimed at tackling the global solid waste problem, which even includes marine debris. On 15 September, 2018, more than 17.6 million individuals in 157 countries celebrated; on 21 September, 2019, more than 21.2 million people from 180 countries will participate in World Cleanup Day; on 19 September, 2020, more than …

Allow the private sector into waste management
2 years, 4 months ago

Allow the private sector into waste management

Hindustan Times  

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a historic appeal for Swachh Bharat on August 15, 2014, he brought into sharp focus waste and waste management as never before. This belies the premise of Swachh Bharat, with no apparent learning and no interest in adopting advanced technological solutions to treat waste. The investment in the construction and operation of a sanitary …

Need to redefine community participation
2 years, 7 months ago

Need to redefine community participation

The Hindu  

Bengaluru has always enjoyed a high middle class action, expression and engagement in many civic issues; solid waste management being a prominent one. Socio-economically privileged local neighbourhoods and apartment communities got together to implement decentralised waste management in their spaces, gradually increasing peer pressure, for others to follow suit in the rising eco-conscious bandwagon. At the other level, some NGOs …

Decoding India's 100% ODF Status
3 years ago

Decoding India's 100% ODF Status

News 18  

The Central government has recently rolled out Swachh Bharat Mission 2 after an unprecedented success of the first phase. In the first phase of Swachh Bharat Mission over 11 crore toilets were built in rural India in five years from 2014-2019. Today when the country has been declared free from open defecation, challenges like non-functioning toilets, inadequate drainage and sewerage …

Swachh Bharat second phase launched; flagship scheme aims to make cities free of garbage, ensure safe water
3 years, 3 months ago

Swachh Bharat second phase launched; flagship scheme aims to make cities free of garbage, ensure safe water

Firstpost  

Under the new phase, it will be ensured that no untreated drain waste is discharged into any river of the country, Modi said after launching SBM-U 2.0 and AMRUT 2.0 at the Ambedkar International Centre in Delhi New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban and the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation …

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity
5 years, 3 months ago

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity

India TV News  

Launched five years ago, the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the verge making India a completely open defecation free, enabling people to embrace change and live their lives with dignity. When Modi visits the US later in September, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will honour the success of Swachh Bharat Mission that has …

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity
5 years, 3 months ago

How Swachh Bharat Mission helped millions live with dignity

The Quint  

New Delhi, Sep 15 Launched five years ago, the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on the verge making India a completely open defecation free, enabling people to embrace change and live their lives with dignity. When Modi visits the US later in September, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will honour the success of Swachh …

Nearing completion Swachh Bharat Mission sees cut in allocation: Official
5 years, 5 months ago

Nearing completion Swachh Bharat Mission sees cut in allocation: Official

India TV News  

Governments much publicised Swachh Bharat Mission aims to enhance the level of sanitation in India and make the country open defecation free seems to be on its way out making way as other important schemes on solid waste management and drinking water is expected to get higher funding. Swachh Bharat Mission which was an election plank in 2014-15 as a …

Economic Survey 2018-19: Private funds needed for Swachh Bharat
5 years, 6 months ago

Economic Survey 2018-19: Private funds needed for Swachh Bharat

The Hindu  

With the Centre claiming that 99.2% of rural India is now open defecation free, the next big goal on the Swachh Bharat journey is the 100% safe and scientific disposal of solid and liquid waste, according to the Economic Survey 2018-19. However, it emphasises that the large resources needed to reach this milestone will need to be met through crowd …

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat
5 years, 6 months ago

Economic Survey: Many states became open defecation free since launch of Swachh Bharat

The Hindu  

Many states have achieved 100% open defecation free status and individual household latrine coverage since the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission, one of the largest cleanliness drives in the world, the Economic Survey 2018-19 said Thursday. The survey document, tabled in Parliament, said since the launch of the flagship programme in October 2014, over 9.5 crore toilets have been built …

Study by UNICEF reveals considerable reduction in groundwater and soil contamination due to Swachh Bharat Mission
5 years, 7 months ago

Study by UNICEF reveals considerable reduction in groundwater and soil contamination due to Swachh Bharat Mission

Op India  

A UNICEF study launched on the World Environment Day 2019, has revealed that ‘Swachh Bharat’ initiative under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has considerably reduced groundwater contamination in Open Defecation Free regions. Another study launched on the same day by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation confirmed that ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ scheme had mobilized around Rs 23,000 crore for creating awareness on …

Swachha: Working towards creating zero waste future'
5 years, 10 months ago

Swachha: Working towards creating zero waste future'

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: Bengaluru, which was once called the ‘Garden City’, earned its infamous sobriquet ‘garbage city’ in 2012. While the BBMP woke up to the crisis only in 2012, a Bengaluru-based NGO, Swachha Eco-Solutions, has been working quietly since 2008, stressing on segregation and converting discarded plastics into useful products, like farm-use irrigation pipes and tiles. Mr Rajesh Babu, co-founder of …

93% of rural households now have access to toilets, over 9 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission
5 years, 10 months ago

93% of rural households now have access to toilets, over 9 crore toilets built under Swachh Bharat Mission

Op India  

Under the NDA government’s flagship scheme the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, over 93 percent of rural households in India now have access to toilets out of which around 96.5 percent households have used the facility. A national survey, conducted by an Independent Agency under the World Bank support to #SwachBharatMission, has found that 93.4% of households in rural India who have …

Thiruvananthapuram: Swachh city' from April
5 years, 11 months ago

Thiruvananthapuram: Swachh city' from April

Deccan Chronicle  

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ambitious decentralised waste management is all set to get more thrust in the state capital with the city corporation gearing up to implement its Swachh Bharat initiative, which aims at strengthening and modernising the existing decentralised waste management initiative of the civic body. The main objective of the initiative is to make finished products from municipal waste including …

Waste of a Nation: Anthropologists Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey on garbage and growth in India
5 years, 11 months ago

Waste of a Nation: Anthropologists Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey on garbage and growth in India

Firstpost  

“Never in history have so many people had so much to throw away and so little space to throw it as the people of India in the second decade of the 21st century,” write Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey in Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India. In 2012, Doron’s visit to Seelampur in north-east Delhi, where electronic …

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