{"id":27166,"date":"2018-10-23T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27166"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T07:16:01","slug":"will-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-be-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/will-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-be-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Swachh Bharat Abhiyan be a success?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/will-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-be-a-success\/article19772877.ece\">(The Hindu, Editorial) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To achieve the mission of a clean India , there is a need to break the link between caste and occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Link between caste and occupation : Manual scavenging<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, there is an inexorable link between occupation and caste; the occupation of manual scavenging is linked with caste. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have to break the link between caste and occupation before we set out to achieve Swachh Bharat. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have made certain communities from particular castes clean the country. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Without breaking the chain, those who make Bharat swachh will never be a part of the campaign. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We need to come out openly and say that caste is the root cause of the problem we wishe to annihilate. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Constitution has declared the <\/span><b>abolition of untouchability in Article 17<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it is still practised by perpetuating occupations such as scavenging. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Indian context, manual scavenging is a misery, drudgery, so one cannot worship it. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One has to begin by recasting society and its target, reconstructing society first by breaking the links between occupation castes. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What are the challenges?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are not using toilets because they neither have access nor the capacity to use one. We cannot organise campaigns to shame them. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the priority is poor, let them choose what they want. The Constitution says the state cannot interfere in people\u2019s lives. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But by appointing whistle-blowers who shame those who do not use toilets, the state is terrorising people.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, let us come to the toilets being constructed. Each toilet requires a septic tank. Instead of <\/span><b>modernising the sewer lines and septic tanks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and investing money and energy on smart techniques of sanitation, we are adding more problems to the existing problem. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People who have given up their lives in keeping Bharat clean, we have not spoken about their <\/span><b>Right to Life<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sewers are being cleaned by those very people shamed in the campaign.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every month, there is news about people dying in manholes after being ordered to clean them. This needs to be addressed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Hindu, Editorial) Context To achieve the mission of a clean India , there is a need to break the link between caste and occupation. Link between caste and occupation : Manual scavenging In India, there is an inexorable link between occupation and caste; the occupation of manual scavenging is linked with caste. We have&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/will-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-be-a-success\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Swachh Bharat Abhiyan be a success?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}