{"id":261613,"date":"2023-09-25T21:03:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=261613"},"modified":"2023-10-06T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:18:17","slug":"india-achieves-major-sanitation-milestone-as-75-villages-are-now-odf-plus-under-swachh-bharat-mission-grameen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-achieves-major-sanitation-milestone-as-75-villages-are-now-odf-plus-under-swachh-bharat-mission-grameen\/","title":{"rendered":"India Achieves Major Sanitation Milestone As 75% Villages Are Now ODF Plus under Swachh Bharat Mission &#8211; Grameen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>India Achieves Major Sanitation Milestone As 75% Villages Are Now ODF Plus under Swachh Bharat Mission &#8211; Grameen<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0published in<\/span><b> PIB on 25th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India has achieved a significant milestone under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase II, with 75% of its villages now attaining the ODF Plus status.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase II?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBMG) was launched in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the world\u2019s largest sanitation campaign that led to the construction of over 100 million individual household toilets over a five-year period, taking sanitation coverage from 39% in 2014 to 100% in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 6 lakh villages declared themselves Open Defecation Free (ODF) by 2nd October, 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having achieved ODF status <\/span><b>SBM-G Phase II <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was launched in 2020-21 with the objective of transforming all the villages from ODF to ODF Plus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An ODF Plus village is one which has sustained its Open Defecation Free (ODF) status along with implementing either solid or liquid waste management systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The major components of the Phase-II of SBM-G are Sustaining Open Defecation Free Status (ODF-S), Solid (Bio-degradable) Waste Management, Plastic Waste Management (PWM), Liquid Waste Management (LWM), Faecal Sludge Management (FSM), GOBARdhan, Information Education and Communication\/Behavior Change Communication (IEC\/BCC) and Capacity Building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SBM-G Phase-II has set the ambitious target of making all villages ODF Plus by 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the status of <\/b><b>Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) Phase II?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three-fourth of the total villages in the country i.e 75% villages have achieved ODF Plus status under Phase II of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top performing States\/UTs which have achieved 100% ODF Plus villages are \u2013 Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands, D&amp;N Haveli, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &amp; Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Ladakh, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Tripura.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among States\/UTs \u2013 Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands, Dadra Nagar Haveli &amp; Daman Diu, Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Sikkim have 100% ODF Plus Model villages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIndia Achieves Major Sanitation Milestone As 75% Villages Are Now ODF Plus under Swachh Bharat Mission &#8211; Grameen\u201d \u00a0published in PIB on 25th September 2023 What is the News? 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