WAR ON CLEANLINESS-MISSION SWACHCH BHARAT

Let the war on cleanliness begin today. 

Let Mahatma's memory lead our country in our noble effort to realize SWACHCH BHARAT.

Let us take a pledge that individually we will not litter in public spaces spit on roads

Let us Breathe clean Eat Clean and Live Clean

Let us gift a true SWACHCH BHARAT to our next generations. 

Jai Hind Jai Swachch Bharat 

TRAIN TOILETS AND OPEN DEFECATION

YOUR VISIT TO TRAIN TOILET
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OPEN DEFECATION ACROSS KILOMETERS

It is nice to learn that PM Narendra Modi has enthused all the Ministries and Ministers to take a broom and clean. During his first three months one of the significant step was taming the babus … making them to attend office in time and to clean the muck in their offices. Now the Ministries and  its babus  are out in open to clean the nation. We could see some photographs of high profile Ministers with a broom sending a significant message on cleanliness. The atma of the Mahatma must be feeling happy for the importance being given to Swachchta.  

There is no department that is not linked to cleanliness. Public service departments like Railways, Road transport, Tourism,Health and Sanitation are directly linked to cleanliness in public spaces. Rural Development ministry shall take care of toilet needs of rural population and Urban Development ministry shall focus on slums development and public toilets. Commerce and Industry shall woo the business to invest/support cleanliness drive. Though each department has something to do, a synergy is required to bring them together.  Hope is that Swachch Bharat Abhiyan shall fulfill such requirement.

Railways is one organization which serves the nation incessantly 24x7 all 365 days.News reports indicate that on almost all stations and platforms of railways are going to be cleaned on 2^nd October involving lakhs of employees and babus.  Stations and platforms becoming litter free would be a dream come true. Let us hope it is realized.

Cleaning stations and premises is only half of the story. Major cleanliness hazard related to Trains is visiting toilets in trains. If you visit a toilet in train it is as good as you enacting open defecation. Train toilets are toilets on move spreading open defecation to all nukes and corners of India running across thousands of kilometers of railway network. When the country is worried about rural India not having toilets there is some thing more serious to worry TRAINS CARRYING OPEN TOILETS ACROSS THE NATION.  There are sporadic reports that railways is contemplating bio toilets. Hope such a project comes to reality at least in five year long swachch bharat abhiyan approved by the Cabinet.

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REDUCE ,REUSE, RECYCLE

    Reduce Reuse and Recycle is the mantra for SWM (Solid Waste Management). Rules exist in India but implementation is weak says World Bank. Don’t we know? Somebody has to say it?

  In SWM, major responsibility is of municipalities. We know how they function and how effective are they. Next is role of individuals.We can reduce reuse and recycle. 

Some ideas for individuals: 

• Buy used. May be on www.olx.in  www.quikr.com
• Use reusable than disposable. Take your own tumbler to office instead of using disposable glasses (make a habit of cleaning it for yourself). Take your water on travel. 
• Reuse one side papers.
• Rent things used infrequently
• Donate. One person's trash is another person's treasure.
• Awareness. 
• Pressure groups to make municipalities to act
• Make your own colony a model colony on SWM
• Give away your waste and get a tree. 

But role of individuals though important in habit making, awareness cannot go a long way without corporate world thinking on these lines

Some ideas for corporate world

• Innovate to reduce solid waste. Example recycle friendly packing. Minimal packing. 
• Invest in recycling technologies for garbage to energy, garbage to reusable products. 
• Declare a prize for SWM research and executable ideas. 

Now 

• Please add your ideas

RAHGIRI DAY Route to Swachch Bharat

   Any movement to succeed,it needs voluntary public participation. People shall feel it as their own. Recent example is the way Raahgiriday going viral in Delhi's Connaught Place with a slogan "apni raahen apni azaadi".

Rahgiriday as a concept is best explained in its website www.raahgiriday.com "Raahgiri Day is India's first sustained car-free citizen initiative that started in Gurgaon on Nov 17.2015. Its participants have played a major role in making this movement nationally and internationally acclaimed. Rahgiriday recently won the early-bird prize for UL and Ashoka Changemakers: safe roads, safer India competion and was selected as one of six most innovative solutions in addressing road safety".

    Participants in raahgiriday are from all walks of life. Yoga lovers, aerobics lovers, live sketchers, skaters,cyclists, joggers, dancers, street players, drummers, children, foreigners … you name and you have all making CP roads coming to life. Its all around enthusiasm, enterprise,energy and ecstasy.

    For Swachch Bharat to become a reality, raahgiriday can be a  great beginning. Raahgiriday can take up the cause of Swachch Bharat along with the cause of safe roads. Awareness campaign on cleanliness with volunteered action can become integral part of Rahgiriday. 

Raahgiriday- safe roads safe India

Raahgiriday -clean roads cleaner India. 

apni raahen apni swachchta...

Swachch Raahgiriday !!!

Let us sincerely hope raahgiriday organizers would certainly take note of it. They can rope in companies in the business of cleanliness to participate in rahgiriday. 

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Attitude first…READ POST: SWACHCH BHARAT A NOBLE CAUSE TO REALIZE

Swachchbharat.in some recent articles

Swach Bharat Abhiyan. Dream and Act for Clean India.

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: L&T to build 5,000 toilets 

Swachch Bharat and paramilitary forces 

Budget 2014 Promises Swachch Bharat By 2019 

Sangita Vyas: Swachch Bharat Mission

Narendra Modi's dream project 'Swach Bharat' impossible by 2019

Write your slogan for Swachch Bharat Abhiyan

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Slogans play a major role in popularizing the message of Swachch Bharat. Here are some. Your may add yours here.

• Dream and act for Swachch Bharat

• SWACHCHAMEVA JAYATE 

• Clean Villages Smart Cities

• Build toilets build nation

• Clean cities dream cities

• Cleanliness is in my DNA (  for t shirts )

• स्वच्छ भारत सुन्दर भारत 

• गंदगी हटाओ स्वच्छता जगाओ 

• मेरे बाए स्वच्छ भारत   मेरे दाए स्वच्छ भारत 
• मेरी नदियाँ  स्वच्छ भारत - मेरी गलियाँ स्वच्छ भारत 

• मेरे सपनें - स्वच्छ भारत 
•  स्वच्छ भारत -  स्वास्त्य भारत 
•   स्वच्छ मन -  स्वच्छ भारत 
• भारत विकास- स्वच्छ भारत  

• स्वच्छता मेरा जनम सिद्ध अधिकार 

• गाँव गली   स्वच्छ  भारत -पेड़ पौधा  सुन्दर भारत 

You can add more in your comments.

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Toiltes first

Swachch Bharat is holistic concept covering  swach jameen, swach paani and swach hawa. Uncontaminated food, drinking water and pollution free air are possible when Swachch Bharat is dreamt and realized in its totality. 

But there has to be a beginning. PM  Shri Narendra Modi has given a call for elimination of open defecation by 2019, the 150^th birth anniversary of Mahatma. Mahatma’s penchant for cleanliness is too well known. It would be a great tribute to the memory of Mahatma if the challenge is achieved.

Sangita Vyas has established, backed by her team’s primary study, that attitude towards using latrines is very important to make the mission success.The reasons for not using government built latrines revealed in their study are varied and some of them are interesting like preference to open defecation due to pleasure and comfort. One can completely agree with Sangita Vyas. Concept of cleanliness is more of attitude as I brought in my earlier post. At the same time, the very requirement of facilities cannot be discounted.

In fact, construction of toilets and attitudinal change have to go together. The very lack of required number of toilets cannot be ignored. It may be presumed that in  urban scenario, reasons like fear of cleaning the pits, pleasure of defecation in open may not be as valid or as strong as they are in rural parlance. Here, mere lack of toilets could be a serious reason for compelled open defecation. Joint Monitoring Programme for water supply and sanitation of WHO/Unicef's data (updated April 2014) reveal that the open defecation has decreased steeper in urban areas than in rural areas over 22 years between 1990 to 2012. However, having total 48% open defecation even 65 years after independence is shameful to say the least. 

Joint Monitoring Programme of WHO/UNICEF - estimated trends of sanitation coverage
India	Sanitation coverage estimates
	Urban (%)		Rural (%)		Total (%)
	1990	2012	1990	2012	1990	2012
Improved facilities	50	60	7	25	18	36
Shared facilities	17	20	1	5	5	9
Other unimproved	5	8	2	5	3	7
Open defecation	28	12	90	65	74	48
Source: WHO/UNICEF JMP, 2014

Therefore, construction of toilets is of prime importance. It is rather first step towards Swach Bharat. 

Apart from attitudinal disdain to use toilets, reasons like expenditure to maintain the toilets (including that of clearing filled pits), requirement of considerable quantum of water for flushing, lack of space in slum areas to allocate for toilet within small houses are some more reasons that need to be addressed for popularizing toilet usage. In rural areas, visiting nearby water bodies for open defecation might be a act of pleasure involving the morning walk. Construction of toilets near such water bodies could be thought of.

Finally, the wastage released on railway tracks across the country is as bad as open defecation. That means about 11 lakh population traveling on trains daily are openly defecating !!! It is an irony that toilets and open defecation coexist on trains. … to be noted seriously to address this issue. 

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