Reports and Indices
World Bank Report on Progress of Swachch Bharat Project
- The Swachch Bharat – Rural (SBM-G) program has been found to have benefited immensely.
Key Findings
- The report found that low-income states were the best performers and wealthiest states were partial performers in terms of overall increases in routine use of toilets.
- When the scheme started, there was a huge gap especially among the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
- More than 100 million toilets have been completed and access to toilets has improved. And the report comes as a vindication of the government’s claims that practices such as open defecation and manual scavenging will no longer continue in India.
About Swachch Bharat Project
- Commencement Date – 2nd October, 2014
- Quote – A step towards purity
- Launched in – Raj Ghat
Objective – To create an “Open Defecation Free” (ODF) India by October 2, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
