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Clean India: Move towards making India disease free
Article
- Sanchita Sharma talks about the importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and its impact
Important analysis
- Deaths related to malnutrition, dietary risk, and water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are directly related to bad hygiene.
- Malnourished children are more likely to be underweight, stunted and wasted and are more vulnerable to infections.
- Poor sanitation, unsafe water and low public health in India is the cause of increased drug resistant infections in India
- Objective of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- Eliminate open defecation,
- Conversion of insanitary toilets to pour flush toilets,
- Eradication of manual scavenging,
- 100% collection and scientific processing/disposal reuse/recycle of Municipal Solid Waste,
- To bring about a behavioral change in people regarding healthy sanitation practices,
- Strengthening of urban local bodies to design, execute and operate systems,
- Achievement of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
- Rural sanitation coverage having gone up from 39% to 67% in three years.
- Use of media and campaigns like “DarwazaBandh” in Maharashtra have led to behavior change and public awareness of the need for sanitation
- The Swachh Bharat urban and rural projects have set-off healthy competition among cities and districts
- Making functional toilets a compulsory qualification for contesting panchayat elections in Haryana and Rajasthan shows the determination to achieve the dream
- In terms of quantity of toilets constructed, Swachh Vidyalaya Abhiyan is a success.
- People are coming with ideas to contribute to the mission
- The dropout rate of females from schools and colleges is decreasing and those that had left have come to school after construction of toilets.
