Article on clean India Campagin

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In a country like India, access to sanitation facilities and safe drinking water is still a distant dream. While India is progressing in other aspects, lack of sanitation and drinking water facilities have acted as impediments to the development process. These basic rights are not only important to health and sustainable development, but also very essential for removal of poverty and overall growth of the country. According to latest estimates by the UN, around 600 million people or 48% of the total population in India defecates in the open, which is more than in any other country in the world. Under these circumstances, can the Swachh Bharat Mission to make India a Clean India by 2019 be a success? However, an interesting fact to note is that while there are millions of people in the world who defecate in the open, we have the examples of many South Asian countries where people consider sanitation as “dignity” and “cleanliness”. It’s high time now that our country, our people, the Government in continuation with the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan should try to follow the examples of some South Asian countries in making our nation a clean nation. We give below the names of a few Asian countries which have been considered as some of the cleanest countries of the world and whose methods and policies can be followed in India: