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CLEAN INDIA MISSION

As Mahatama Gandhi quoted, ‘sanitation ’

is more important than Independence,

“Swach Bharat Abhiyan” or ‘Clean

India Mission’ is campaign that aims

at cleaning up roads, infrastructures,

streets, rural areas, smaller towns and cities of the country. The primary

motive of ‘Clean India Mission’ is uproot the open defecation by constructing

community owned and households- owned toilets. It also aims at building a

mechanism that can monitor toilet use. This mission, run by the Government

of India, aims at achieving ‘ Open defecation free India’ by constructing 90

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million toilets in rural areas by the 150 birth anniversary of Mahatama

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Gandhi (2 October). India will also reach just amiable development Goal

Number 6 by achieving this mission.