Swachh Bharat (Clean India)
It is heartening to see 33,000 plus people join the group ‘Clean India’ created on the My
Gov site MyGov.in. The pragmatic suggestions of the group members ensure that the vision of Hon’able Prime Minister to create a ‘Swachh Bharat’ by the time India marks the 150th birth anniversary of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi will be a reality.
The fast growing group in terms of members has come up with numerous ways to make India Clean. The group while hosting discussion on the following topic should issues of urban and rural cleanliness be tackled differently and can a single approach provide solutions to all problems related to cleanliness, suggests below mentioned worth implementing points:
- City to be planned with dust bins placed at good intervals. Have enough paid toilets and washrooms.
- Fine people who are caught littering and send repeat offenders to work at a social centre to give their free services.
- Reward those who keep their surroundings clean including industrial houses.
- Most waste found in rural area is biodegradable. This should be used to make compost. Urban areas should segregate dry and wet waste.
- Use celebrities and TV ads to educate people about cleanliness and encourage them to keep their surroundings clean.
To avoid manual scavenging the suggestions received were to pass a law. Also municipal corporations who practise it should be made aware of alternatives and fined heavily if found breaking the rule. The other suggestion was to go for competition for a green toilet. Many members suggested that many a times municipal corporations have machines to clean but they lie in neglect and manual scavenging continues. This as per the members should be stopped as soon as possible. Members also suggested construction of bio-toilets in rails and creating community toilets in villages. However, most suggested that the evil practice of manual scavenging can be only stopped by educating and inspiring people.
The suggestions received for how to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary with special focus on cleanliness received numerous comments like:
- Create city / district level waste recycling plants with incentives for providers and users.
- Use of incineration: A great way to convert waste to energy, reduces the junk volume of the waste and makes the environment clean.
- Ban organic waste going to landfills.
- Make commercial units including hospitals and hotels to create an exclusive system by themselves to hand over their waste directly to solid waste management units.
- Install more dust bin for non-bio degradable waste only. Make compulsory to hand over bio degradable waste to the collection agents only and ban public littering.
- Bring the latest technology in solid waste management. Involve school children and NGOs for awareness campaign.
The interesting tasks assigned to the members has received wonderful response from the members. The tasks assigned are:
- Identity 10 global best practices used by countries which have made a big difference in the lives of their citizens.
- Visit a mid-day meal kitchen and assess the cleanliness standards. Present a report on the scope of improvement on cleanliness there.
- Organise a cleanliness drive in your colony or locality.
- Share photographs of a particular area or locality, stressing on how they were before and how they are at present in terms of cleanliness.
- Identify 50 cities and 150 towns that can be used for pilot testing of solid waste management and waste water treatment initiatives and suggest ideas on how these initiatives cab be actuated on the ground.
- Suggest a PPP model that can be adopted to make our cities garbage free.
- Suggest a policy roadmap to construct and maintain proper toilet facilities in cities and villages for the poor.
The most happening section of the group is where the members put their comments after visiting schools and presented their reports on the hygiene standards maintained there for mid-day meals. Have a look at what two members experienced when they visited government schools:
- Visited one of the Government school in Baraut, Handia, Allahabad. When I entered in Kitchen of that school, I was totally shocked. Its condition was very poor. Even the women who works there, don’t wash the utensils properly. I don’t know how those student eat it? Its condition seems to be like a kitchen for dogs or some unhygienic animals. And the in charge of the Kitchen was Pradhan of that village. Now I can only pray for those small kids. May God bless them.
- I visited a mid-day meal kitchen in Virugambakkam Chennai. Very good standard are being maintained. Cleanliness is highly appreciable. Items are provided at low costs. Steam cooking is done here. Food items are good here. Purified drinking water is provided. I suggest this scheme can be made all over India.
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Honorable Prime Minister,
Now after educating the masses of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and need of cleanliness. Now is the time to implement fines on the people who are littering the waste here and there. This can be start with Metro cities and then slowly expand to urban cities and then to rural cities.
For this to be more effective the Municipal Corporation and Municipalities which are not functioning properly should also be fined.
Dear Sir,Plz start one blog for the Medical emergencies only. Most of the part in Bharat, we are not able to get the quick medical help or our govt. hospitals doesn’t have the needed machines or medicine to handle the patients. Patients had to move to pvt. hospitals which cost a lot. Why can’t we Set the price for the medicine which is low in cost but sold on 4 times of the cost to the patient. Plz do urgently in this regards & set the price benchmark for the medicine. Thank you.
respected sir, keeping in mind of swatch bharat mission,i want to draw the attention of yourself on this issue.FIRST IMPRESSION–Whenever we go abroad to any country, we make a impression about that country when we travel from airport to hotel, .same thing applies to delhi .the moment we cross the airport premises( t1,t3 or vvip terminal),we come across with broken pavements,signages, dividers,potholes, traffic violations,beggers on crossings,dirty roads.concerned agencies needs to be pulled
Honourable Prime Minister,
Thank You For Visiting In Rishikesh to meet Swami Dayanand Saraswati on 11/09/2015. i just like to Share my thought about the cleanness of this area where the ashram is located. last One year the tourist of this place feel guilty to visit here, just beacause of of the dirtyness of near Dayananda Ashram. Here is too much Garbage throwing by the Municipal Party of Rishikesh & Muni ki reti….. and people also because population of this area have to dumping zone.
Swachh Bharat mission is one of the best effort to make our country beautiful, people clean their surrounding collect the waste material and dump it into an another place,in this type of cleaning we only clean our surrounding and pollute the other surrounding,suggestion from my side is that there is a need of waste disposal management also which leads to efficient way of garbage dump.
so gov.and environment social activist should come forward to initiate this waste disposal management.
Second step is Local Municipalities has to play a vital role in then REMOVAL OF THAT WASTE ON DAILY BASIS preferably in Mid-Night with the help of hydraulic trucks so that it does not disturb the public and transport in day time.
There is a huge requirement of PUTTING DUSTBINS AT EVERY 200 TO 300 METERS in all the residential and public places in cities or wherever there is certain population living or working. This is very important to get rid of waste which is seen lying in open everywhere in India. This step will make the public take use of dustbins around them as seen in most beautiful cities or countries of the world. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT NEED AND IS REAL CAUSE OF INEFFECTIVENESS OF THIS MISSION.
Honourable Prime Minister, Recently in one of the results I was surprised to see Bangalore being named as the 7th cleanest city. Being a citizen of Bangalore I strongly disagree as most of the areas are dirty. Garbage management is bad. I think something is seriously wrong. If this is the way it is being measured we will never achieve the objective of Swatch Bharat. This needs to be revisited please as other cities like Kolkata are much cleaner than Bangalore
Hello Sir,
I welcome the initiatives of our Honorable Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi to make India clean and green on the eve of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th.Birth Anniversary. Already the changes are evident in most places. However, in trains, we still follow old system of toilet resulting in site of track at stations becoming unbearable. I am sure Modi Sir has a solution to be fixed very soon in his mind. This is just a gentle reminder and surely we will have a better system before 2019.
Dear Pradhansevak ji,
appko swantrata diwaski bahut bahut badhai!!
swachta ko hamari sanskriti ki virasat banane ke liye ek sujhaav dena chaunga, ye shuruat hamara school se hi karni hogi, bacho ko iska mahatva batana hoga, tabhi yeh hamare culture mein aayega.
hume unme utsah jagana hoga or uske liye hume inter school comepetition karna chaihye or use ek kranti ke roop dena hogaa. kripya jawab jaroor dijiyegaa.
regards
Sachin Jalan
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Sir, I have one observation for the cleanliness at Holy shrines like Vaishno devi and tourists places where horses are used for commuting. I think this is not bad practice but the their waste creates a problem. The whole path gets stinked and unclean. This also creates problem for foot walkers. My suggestion is that if government can provide the some new techniques or machines for collecting or cleaning their manure, it will help in generating employment and keeping the places clean.