Swachh Bharat Mission

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Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India on 2 October 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management and to create Open Defecation Free (ODF) villages. The mission also emphasizes scientific solid waste management, including segregation, collection, processing, and disposal of municipal waste. The program also aims to increase awareness of menstrual health management. It is a restructured version of the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan which was launched by the Government of India in 1999, as Total Sanitation Campaign. A formal sanitation programme was first launched in India in 1954, followed by the Central Rural Sanitation Programme in 1986, the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) in 1999 and the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan in 2012. These earlier programs laid the foundation for integrated sanitation and waste management approaches, which were further expanded under the Swachh Bharat Mission...

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