{"id":27878,"date":"2018-10-23T16:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27878"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T11:14:27","slug":"what-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-ignores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-ignores\/","title":{"rendered":"What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ignores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/what-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-ignores\/article24738978.ece\">What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ignores<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ravichandran Bathranemphasized that the profession of waste removal needs to be made caste-neutral through adoption of technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>2. In India, waste carries the stigma that is attached to pollution and caste.<\/p>\n<p>3. The waste remover in India is not a professional, like in the West.<\/p>\n<p>4. PM Modi government announced his government\u2019s agenda to accomplish the vision of a clean India by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>5. According to PM, filthiness all around us, is an obstacle for promoting the tourism that offers jobs to the poorest of the poor.<\/p>\n<p><u>6. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA):<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) was an unprecedented nationwide initiative aimed to inspire the public to voluntarily clean public spaces as a service to the nation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u>7. Loopholes in Swachh Bharat campaign:<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The campaign hardly addresses a reworking of the underground sewerage system.<\/li>\n<li>This is a serious concern because many labourers have died recently while cleaning jammed manholes that open into the sewerage system.<\/li>\n<li>As per the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, over 300 cases of deaths due to manual scavenging, mostly from particular caste groups, were reported in 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>8. In India, waste carries the stigma that is attached to pollution and caste.<\/p>\n<p>9. In Agraharams (exclusive Brahmin quarters), and even in some non-Brahmin households, for example, toilets are constructed behind the house so that the scavenger is \u2018unseeable\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><u>10. Suggestions: <\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the author, western approaches can be followed in India to remove waste systematically.<\/li>\n<li>For example, when Londoners experienced the \u2018Great Stink\u2019 in 1858, the government realised that it would need a holistic sewerage plan, which would become part of the London water infrastructure, to remove filth and treat waste from the river<\/li>\n<li>Punitive measures should exhort the public to learn where and how one should urinate, defecate and dispose of garbage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ignores Article: Ravichandran Bathranemphasized that the profession of waste removal needs to be made caste-neutral through adoption of technologies. Important facts: 2. In India, waste carries the stigma that is attached to pollution and caste. 3. The waste remover in India is not a professional, like in the West. 4. PM&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-swachh-bharat-abhiyan-ignores\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ignores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}