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Inspired
by the famous Ice Bucket Challenge, on the occasion of 145th birth anniversary
of Mahatma Gandhi, “Swachh Bharat” meaning “Campaign
Clean India” was officially launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2nd
October 2014 to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of ‘clean India’ by 2nd
October 2019. The first of its kind national level cleaning
campaign by the Government of India is expected to cost over 62000 crore
Indian Rupees which is equivalent to 10 billion US dollars.
After
inaugurating the country's biggest-ever cleanliness drive, Indian Prime
Minister Modi himself used a broom and cleaned a road of the capital
Delhi after which he nominated 9
prominent celebrities from various fields of India. Narendra Modi’s selection team
for the Swachh Bharat campaign includes, Cricketing
legend Sachin Tendulkar, Bollywood actor Salman Khan, Business tycoon Anil
Ambani, Bollywood diva
Priyanka Chopra, Hindhu Spiritual leader Baba Ramdev, Actor & Director Kamal Hassan, Governor of Goa Mridula Sinha, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor & the team of comedy TV series Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah. Almost every nominated celebrity by Prime
Minister Modi who participated in this drive nominated another nine people to
join the Swachh Bharat campaign.
So is on-going the nation wide clean India campaign rapidly. However taking a
broom in the filthiest of places & making the practice fashionable won’t
entirely clean a nation which has the third-largest standing army in
the world. The most important factor that the people of India should
understand is that the success of Swachh Bharat only depends upon the people of
India itself. According to a
recently released UN report, India continues to have the largest number of
people in the world defecating in the open where only 32.70% of rural
households had access to toilets. This is just one single problem in my idea
which needs reform immediately as soon as possible at a time when a nation wide
campaign as Swachh Bharat is happening
at the country. Open defecation can be described as an every Indian’s problem as it
is a worst public bad habit which effects even on households that do not
practice open defecating.
Some social norms & behaviors of the Indians must also change in order to
make Swachh Bharat campaign a reality. Indians should mark that the countries that appear clean are so because
their citizens are engaged in cleanliness & hygiene & they don't
indulge in littering nor do they allow it to happen in their society. What
I mean to say is that, it is the Indian people’s attitude that needs a change. If India is to achieve the title of a “clean
India” by Swachh Bharat campaign every individual had to remain committed to
cleanliness and devote his time for it willingly. To
fulfill the vision of the nation’s national leader, Swachh Bharat needs not
just one day clean up but follow up efforts for the campaign is essential for
it to change into a reality. If the common Indians can realize their own
responsibilities, then it would surely make the mission Swachh Bharat to a
successful campaign in a near future.
Since its inauguration Swachh Bharat has been carried forward from ordinary
citizens to famous people from all walks of life, joining it all across a
nation which consists
of 29 states and 7 union territories. Indian President Pranab Mukherjee requested
every Indian to spend 100 hours annually in this campaign while Prime Minister
Modi urged local masses to fulfill Mahatma Gandhi`s dream of clean India
describing Swachh Bharat as beyond
politics inspired by patriotism. For Swachh Bharat campaign to turn into success,
every citizen of India along with the government should join hands and work out
with loyalty to keep the
most populous democracy in the world clean. To the 2
billon people living in India, it will be a big challenge with Swachh Bharat
campaign to change their mentality about cleanliness & hygiene at all.
However to achieve the
real initiative of Swachh Bharat the
people of India should take as much enthusiasm by understanding the sense of their responsibility. I wouldn't hold
back the responsibility of the government in this context. When talking about
garbage problem of the 7th largest country, I think the government of India should provide as much dustbin as possible
in every corner of a road or in every public place so that it’ll surely be a
help for this campaign to turn into a quick success. Government should also take responsibility to check whether the
municipal bodies of the country are functioning properly. Most of all the
government of India should put more effort to build more toilets & initiate
more sanitation programs to maintain the hygiene of the multi-ethnic
society. Then only Mahatma Gandhi’s
vision of
'Clean India' will be fulfilled by 2nd October 2019 at his 150th
birth anniversary through Swachh Bharat Campaign.
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