The recent release of the scientific report in the journal Nature on the Swachh Bharat Mission’s (SBM) impact on the reduction in infant and child mortality broadly coincides with the 10th anniversary of the programme.
Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech to the nation from the Red Fort on August 15, 2014, it was formally launched on October 2 of the same year. This was the first time in history that any head of government in the world was publicly committed to ending the scourge of open defecation in his country in a specified time frame.
Focused on the massive challenge of eliminating open defecation in the country by October 2, 2019 (the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi), the SBM sought to change the behaviour of about 550 million Indians from their traditional habit of defecating in the open to using the over 100 million household toilets constructed for them by the government.
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