IMPACT OF SWACH BHARAT ABHIYAN

                SWACH BHARAT ABHIYAN

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The “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” campaign was kick-started
on Gandhi jayati day  2nd October, 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s,
who led from the forefront wielding a broom to make
India clean and open defecation free (ODF) nation by the
year 2019. He invited all the Indians to devote 100 hours
to clean their surroundings.

The most important aspect or problem of
the clean India drive is to build Toilets for rural
households and sanitation complexes for girls and boys in
the schools.
The campaign has already got overwhelming support from
corporate houses as part of CSR as well as celebrities
joining in to make it a mass movement. As per Census year
2011, About 113 million households do not have toilets, which
means nearly 50% of households in India still defecate in
the open being exposed to healthcare challenges,
harassment and shame.
Girl dropout ratio from schools in rural India after Class V
is 50%, where lack of separate toilet facility for girls in
government schools is the central de-motivating factor
amongst others for dropping out.
With the extensive campaign, the importance of toilets
has been highlighted and CSR initiatives are being
planned on building toilets in schools for girls. In this
euphoria of creating toilets, it is of utmost importance to
look towards the sustainability of the initiative otherwise
the momentum gained would yield no result and the
toilets would end up being a storeroom.
SoulAce Social Venture , a specialised firm in the field of
CSR & Sustainability has already covered 20 states in
India, for various socio-economic need assessment studies
and impact assessment studies at villages for different
companies for their CSR activities. During several studies
it has been found that number of initiatives were neither
successful nor created impact, because sustainability was
never in mind during planning of the project.
Building toilets without people using it is not going to
serve any purpose. Equal focus should be on behavioural
change and creating enabling infrastructure systems for
smooth usage.
Bill Gates, who’s foundation (Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation or technology advisor of Microsoft ) has been actively working in India on
sanitation, recently met the Prime Minister and
highlighted on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that “Rural
development and building toilets is only the beginning,
getting the behaviours to change is a big challenge”
In order to bring out behaviour change, extensive
awareness generation initiatives would need to be
undertaken with regards to the negative healthcare issues
related to open defecation. Different stakeholders would
need to be part of the behaviour change campaign
including students, teachers, principal, parents and
panchayat. Different mediums can be used for creating
awareness like comics, wall painting, audiovisual tools and
street plays among others.
With regards to the enabling infrastructural facilities, it is
important to ensure regular water supply to maintain
hygiene and hand washing facilities. Water supply would
require pump set and electricity to run it, which is still
non-existent in many backward districts in India. Options
of solar pump set could also be explored. Rainwater
harvesting facilities in schools could also be promoted,
which can feed the toilets water supply.
The role of multiple stakeholders has been well
acknowledged by the Prime Minister for the initiative to
be successful. With regards to CSR initiatives on toilets,
apart from hiring contractors to create toilet facilities,
companies would need to partner with social
organisations in ensuring behaviour change and
maintenance. Every primary and secondary school has a
school management committee, which would need to be
empowered to ensure sustainability of the initiative and
financial support from the panchayat’s sanitation funds
could help in regular maintenance of the toilets.
The interest being generated for CSR activities under
“Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” has been unprecedented and its
important that we channelize the efforts towards creating
sustained impact; otherwise it might end up being
another initiative with only physical infrastructures being
created.

WE NEED   TO BE A CLEAN INDIA   &     SAFE  INDIA