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VOL. 7, ISSUE 3 (2025)
Swatch Bharath Abhiyan - obstacles in rural India
Authors
Banoth Sampath
Abstract
The swatch Bharath Mission (SBM) launched by the government of India on
2 October 2014 has a noble objective of making India cleaner by improving the
sanitation conditions by in the country. The mission has two major
sub-missions, rural and urban focused on sanitation improvement in rural and
urban areas respectively. The mission has the target of achieving total
sanitation by 2019 and to make India cleaner and healthier for its people. But
Indian government failed in achieving the goals of this mission. In this paper
I will analyze the causes for the failure of swatch Bharath in rural India and
its remedies. First, I will mainly focus on the plights of manual scavenging,
and I try to explain how public policies such as swatch Bharath failed take
into account socially evil practices such as untouchability and the
continuation of manual scavenging based on the caste identity. My analysis of
swatch Bharath’s failure in rural India is twofold, the first one is the
prominence of the idea of pollution and purity and untouchability practice in
rural India and the economic burden on poor families to construct toilets, this
led to the continuation of open defecation in rural India.
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Pages:26-28
How to cite this article:
Banoth Sampath "Swatch Bharath Abhiyan - obstacles in rural India". International Journal of Sociology and Political Science, Vol 7, Issue 3, 2025, Pages 26-28
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