SWACCH BHARAT ABHIYAN

              SWACCH BHARAT ABHIYAN

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) or Clean India Mission was a nation-wide campaign to clean up the streets, roads and infrastructure of cities, towns, and rural areas. Its objectives included eliminating open defecation through the construction of household-owned and community-owned toilets. The mission aimed to achieve an "open-defecation free" (ODF) India by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi by constructing 100 million toilets in rural India at a projected cost of ₹1.96 lakh crore (US$28 billion).

	As part of the campaign, volunteers, known as Swachhagrahis, or "Ambassadors of cleanliness",Modi has called the campaign Satyagrah se Swachhagrah in reference to Gandhi's Champaran Satyagrahalaunched on 10 April 1916.  Slogan One step towards cleanliness Country India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Launched Raj Ghat; 2 October 2014; 5 years ago Status Ended Website swacchbharat.my.gov.in