Swachh Bharat Mission completes three Years

New Delhi, October 02: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched India's biggest cleanliness movement on Gandhi Jayanti, three years ago and it is entitled as Swachh Bharat Mission(SBM).

From giving states money to build toilets to incentives to private players to process municipal waste and make compost or generate electricity.

There is still two years to reach the target. But the official calculations and unofficial calculations seem to differ on how far the goal has been achieved. As many as 49.62 million more households in India have toilets–rising from 38.7% in 2014 to 69.04% in 2017–and 250,000 of India’s 649,481 villages have been declared free of open defecation, but the claims of 150,000 (63%) of these villages have not been verified and there is no way of knowing if the rest are using the new toilets.

* 38.7% of rural households had individual household latrines (IHHL) on October 2, 2014, the day SBM was launched.

*249,811 villages were open-defecation free (ODF) in 2017, of which 63% (157,935) were verified officially;



*207 districts are ODF, of which 62% (127) were verified officially.

Under the SBM-G scheme, the target of building toilets was kept at 111.1 million. Of these, the ministry of drinking water and sanitation (MDWS) found that 88.4 million households were eligible for receiving financial assistance under the SBM.

The World Bank has termed the scheme’'s implementation as "moderately unsatisfactory".