Will swach bharat success?

Swachhta (cleanliness) was an idea first articulated by Mahatma Gandhi, who said that sanitation is even more important than political freedom. A mission as fundamentally transformative as Swachh Bharat will not only result in intended physical outcomes but also a lifestyle and mindset change.

The caste link

The mission for a clean India will not work without breaking the link between caste and occupation.

To clean the country, you have to address the problems of those who have spent a lifetime cleaning the country. You come out with your brooms and clean for a day. It is a photo opportunity for most of you. But I want to ask, what of the remaining 364 days? Who will clean your dirt? In India, there is an inexorable link between occupation and caste; the occupation of manual scavenging is linked with caste. We have to break the link between caste and occupation before we set out to achieve Swachh Bharat. It cannot be achieved by preaching ‘cleanliness is next to godliness’. You have made certain communities from particular castes clean the country. If that were not the case, why is it that for the last 4,000 years, the same communities are cleaning the countryside? Without breaking the chain, those who make Bharat swachh will never be a part of the campaign. You will be projecting an illusion and to promote that, you will conceive of campaigns where the success of the illusion will depend on how well you promote it. Constitution declaring the abolition of untouchability in Article 17, it is still practiced by perpetuating occupations such as scavenging. In the Indian context, manual scavenging is a misery, drudgery, so one cannot worship it. 

From positive perspective (progress side)

In the short span of three years, about 50 million toilets have been constructed in rural India, increasing the coverage from 39% to 69% now; another 3.8 million have sprung up in cities and towns and another 1.4 million are presently under construction. 

So far, 248,000 villages have been resurrected from the ignominy of open defecation; 203 districts, over one third of the total, have banished open defecation. Five States have declared themselves Open Defecation Free (ODF) in rural areas: Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand and Haryana. About 1,200 of our cities and towns, about one-third of the total, have already become ODF. More importantly, all ODF claims are scrutinized by third-party independent verification. 

Women’s empowerment

Mission will work for sure since its success will have the most liberating impact on the women of our country. Surely no one can seriously believe that defecating in the open is a safe and viable option for women. 

The Educational Push

If we more focus on education on the side of cleanness then our success speed will increase. i think,we should give instruction to school and teachers. first of all we have to give instruction to teachers and encourage them to follow the campaign and give enthuse to students to make habit for the cleanness. if the students have habit then they will go for cleanness definitely. i means to say,if base is perfect and foundation is good then we can make higher stories on this perfect foundation. we have to  make one new education law or make reforms with include clean India campaign.