Around 27 states, 601 districts, 5,934 blocks, 2,46,116 gram panchayats, and 5,50,151 villages have been declared Open defecation free
New Delhi: On Mahatma Gandhi’s On 150th birth anniversary Mahatma Gandhi’s, India is all set to be declared open defecation free by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, soon after coming to power for the first time in 2014 announced the Swachh Bharat Mission, cited how Mahatma Gandhi had laid immense stress on cleanliness and wanted the countrymen to pursue it.
A vision was soon turned into a mission in the entire country. Five years ago, on this day, Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin (SBM-G) was launched with the intent to make India open defecation free. Years ago, what was once a dream has finally been realized.
The main access to toilet facilities to all rural households in the country was at the crux of this mission. providing sanitation coverage in the rural areas of the country, which was 38.7 per cent on October 2, 2014, increased to more than 98 percent, said, government officials.
Around 27 states, 601 districts, 5,934 blocks, 2,46,116 gram panchayats, and 5,50,151 villages have been declared Open defecation free, much before the formal announcement on October 2.
Earlier Modi said that” Before declaring the nation open defecation free, it started with states being declared so. The states went into a race as many saw it as a prestige battle,”.
States and union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Pudducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand – all stands free of the open defecation menace.
A short video on Mahatma Gandhi is shared by PM Modi’s message of peace that is still relevant to the world community. He has also referred to the seven habits of Gandhi. This is wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, visit without ethics, science without humanity, religion without sacrifice and politics without principles.
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Tributes to beloved Bapu! On #Gandhi150, we express gratitude to Mahatma Gandhi for his everlasting contribution to humanity. We pledge to continue working hard to realise his dreams and create a better planet. pic.twitter.com/4y0HqBO762
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 2, 2019
The mission’s target was, which was to be achieved by October 2 this year 2019, including construction of 66.42 lakh individual household toilets, 2.52 lakh community toilet seats, construction of 2.56 lakh public toilet seats, and achieving 100 percent door-to-door collection and scientific management of municipal solid waste.
Till February this year, India constructed 9.16 crore toilets.
On Wednesday Narendra Modi is all set to announce, India open defecation free a dream of Mahatma Gandhi, it already has eyes set on its second leg through smart management of waste and recycling it again.
But October 2, 2019, will forever be etched in the country’s history as a red-letter day.
PM Modi will be visiting Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat where he will declare Open Defecation Free(ODF) in India.
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