Swachh Bharat Abhiyan

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Hindi: सससससस सससस सससससस, English: Clean India Mission) is a national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4041 statutory towns, to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. [1] [2] [3] This campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. It is India's biggest ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college students of India participated in this event. [4] [5] The mission was started by Prime Minister Modi, who nominated nine famous personalities for the campaign, and they took up the challenge and nominated nine more people and so on (like the branching of a tree). It has been carried forward since then with people from all walks of life joining it. The components of the programme as listed in the SBM guidelines are: a) Construction of individual sanitary latrines for households below the poverty line with subsidy (80%) where demand exists. b) Conversion of dry latrines into low-cost sanitary latrines. c) Construction of exclusive village sanitary complexes for women providing facilities for hand pumping, bathing, sanitation and washing on a selective basis where there is not adequate land or space within houses and where village panchayats are willing to maintain the facilities. d) Setting up of sanitary marts. e) Total sanitation of villages through the construction of drains, soakage pits, solid and liquid waste disposal. f) Intensive campaign for awareness generation and health education to create a felt need for personal, household and environmental sanitation facilities With effect from 1 April 1999, the Government of India restructured the Comprehensive Rural Sanitation Programme and launched the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC). To give a fillip to the Total Sanitation Campaign, effective June 2003 the government launched an incentive scheme in the form of an award for total sanitation coverage, maintenance of a clean environment and open defecation-free panchayat villages, blocks and districts called Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Hindi: स्वच्छ भा�रत अभिभाया�न, English: Clean India Mission) is a

national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4041 statutory towns, to

clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.[1][2][3]

This campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi,

where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. It is India's biggest

ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college

students of India participated in this event.[4][5] The mission was started by Prime

Minister Modi, who nominated nine famous personalities for the campaign, and they

took up the challenge and nominated nine more people and so on (like the branching

of a tree). It has been carried forward since then with people from all walks of life

joining it.

The components of the programme as listed in the SBM guidelines are: a)

Construction of individual sanitary latrines for households below the poverty line with

subsidy (80%) where demand exists. b) Conversion of dry latrines into low-cost

sanitary latrines. c) Construction of exclusive village sanitary complexes for women

providing facilities for hand pumping, bathing, sanitation and washing on a selective

basis where there is not adequate land or space within houses and where

village panchayats are willing to maintain the facilities. d) Setting up of sanitary marts.

e) Total sanitation of villages through the construction of drains, soakage pits, solid

and liquid waste disposal. f) Intensive campaign for awareness generation and health

education to create a felt need for personal, household and environmental sanitation

facilities

With effect from 1 April 1999, the Government of India restructured the

Comprehensive Rural Sanitation Programme and launched the Total Sanitation

Campaign (TSC).

To give a fillip to the Total Sanitation Campaign, effective June 2003 the government

launched an incentive scheme in the form of an award for total sanitation coverage,

maintenance of a clean environment and open defecation-free panchayat villages,

blocks and districts called Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

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There are arguments for and against the given topic "Swach Bharat" in the debate.  You need to write proper dialogues and add your proper points too.

Start - Introduction:   Hello every one! Good day to you all.  We have a nation-wide important topic to debate today.    Mr Ind will talk on the side of the mission and Mr Pak is going to attack him from all sides. So just keep your ears open and eyes hooked on to them.  Okay, Mr Ind, start off.

Debate and arguments:Ind:   Swach bhaarat or clean india is an excellent mission started by prime minister Modi.  See it will clean Indian towns and cities. It will be good for all.

Pak:  First of all, why did this mission come about?  People of India are so stupid and backward. They do not even know simple things and behave like animals.  They defecate in the open.  They litter every where.  That is why foreigners hate Indian people and India.  They do not want to come to India.

Ind :  Unfortunately, people of India being uneducated and poor, could not think of these things.  Further, they had been neglected by others.  But remember Indian culture is one of the best cultures in the world since ages.   Now government has taken proper steps towards building Clean India.

Pak:  You may be right.  But do you think it is practical.  The mission requires too much of money. We don't have so much money in our economy.  Perhaps it will stop in between.  It will only result in enhancing the political image of NDA government.

Ind :  What are you saying? Mr Modi has already amassed a lot of support from public too.  Many people are voluntarily participating in it.  It will continue.

Pak:   People will do as long as they have enthusiasm.  NDA may not be able to fund it after some years. Then,

IND:   By then people will be used to doing their duties as they should. SO there is no need to explicitly do any mission.  The publicity given now and the programs being organized are spreading quickly around India.  Poor people are also learning about it.

Pak:  Poor people are so ignorant.  They do not know and can not learn any thing.  they defecate on the road sides.  It is so disgusting to go in villages. They do not have money to construct even toilets.

IND:  Now clean India has planned construction of toilets.  Once the education level of poor villagers betters, they will take care of sanitation themselves.  It is only a matter of a few years.

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Pak: What about schools?  There are so many schools being organized in open air, old buildings, with no water, toilets etc.  Indians will never improve.

Ind:  Well in thousands of schools there are toilets being built in the next five years.  After a decade people of India will be rich and aware of sanitation. They will take care of themselves.  All children now are aware of this.  They will not forget about it.

Conclusion :  

  So we agree that swachch bharat is a good mission and will do good to people of india.  We understand that there is a lot of effort in this.  There is also a lot of education of people and a lot of money to be spent.   However,  let us hope that in 5 years people will practice sanitation and cleanliness and continue for ever.