Swachh Bharat Mission Explained
The Swachh Bharat Mission is a nationwide campaign to improve sanitation and cleanliness, with rural and urban components.
The Swachh Bharat Mission is a nationwide campaign to improve sanitation and cleanliness, with rural and urban components.
Goals
Its first phase focused on eliminating open defecation by building toilets and changing behaviour, leading to many areas being declared Open Defecation Free (ODF). Later phases focus on solid and liquid waste management and sustaining ODF status.
Significance
The mission links sanitation to health, dignity and environmental outcomes, and is one of the largest such campaigns globally.
Why it matters for UPSC
The Swachh Bharat Mission's ODF goal and its focus on waste management in later phases are commonly tested topics.
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What does ODF stand for in the Swachh Bharat Mission?
Open Defecation Free.
What do the later phases of Swachh Bharat focus on?
Solid and liquid waste management and sustaining ODF status.