NEED & IMPORTANCE OF SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN

NEED OF SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN :-

We are told from our childhood that “Cleanliness is the best service to the Nation” but I am sure that most of us have failed to apply it in our life. Cleanliness is what our country needs badly now. I am very keen to describe why we need “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” and why we should participate in this movement. Some reasons are given below.

• Open elimination has always been a major problem in India and it is being practiced for many years continuously. People in rural areas are especially prone to open elimination and no one can deny the fact that open elimination is a big reason for causing diseases and sometimes fatal diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, typhoid etc. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan will help India in becoming open defection free and rural area to be healthy and happy.

• The condition in urban areas in India is not much better than those in the rural areas in context of cleanliness. Big cities and towns are the main sources of open dumping and littering. Even, sometimes, the open dumping is done on the roadside or near a public place like any Park, Shopping Mall, Schools and Collages and others and people passing through these ways are infected to dangerous viruses and get sick.

• Cleanliness is very important from the point of view to increase to Tourism in India. We all know that growth in tourism will bring the growth in economy but tourism will be promoted only if there will be sufficient cleanliness in the nation. No tourist will be plan to visit a country with littering everywhere and dirty smells all the time. Suppose by chance any visitor visits India then he will spread the image of a dirty and unhygienic India in the world.

• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also necessary to memorise people their duty to keep their surroundings clean. As a part of society, we remember our rights but don’t care about duties. We feel that cleanliness is the duty of some specific Government departments and thus we wildly spread littering and dumping anywhere assuming it is our birth right.

• Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also aimed at removing dirty water from our surroundings because it gives rise to dirty smells and mosquitoes which cause the weakening your health.

• The poor hygiene and sanitation also affect the economic condition of India and makes it slowly worse every year. 

• As per another report/survey, children’s death rate in India is very high and it invites the death of minimum 1000 children everyday only because of poor hygiene, lack of cleanliness and the mass practices of open excretion.

• The extreme need of “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” in India can also be understood by the fact that the river “Ganga”, which is considered to be the holiest river in India and bathing in which was considered to make you get rid of many diseases, has now became dirty and now its water is being the reason for many diseases. 

There are a number of many other reasons why we need “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” and other such movements and campaigns in our country but before going through these points to understand the need of cleanliness, ask yourselves why we don’t need cleanliness, do we have proper cleanliness and hygiene, Is our society clean, do we clean our surroundings after cleaning our houses. All these questions will help you to identify whether we need a cleanliness campaign or not.

IMPORTANCE OF SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN :-

Importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is nothing but the importance of cleanliness in India. Cleanliness has always been beneficial and it makes society look beautiful and make it provide a healthy environment. In the country like India where people, whether well-educated or illiterate, are completely unconscious about cleanliness and hygiene there the campaigns like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan play a key role in the development of society and the country by improving the health of citizens. Importance of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is as follows-

• The main objective behind launching the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is to make India completely open defecation free by the end of the year 2019. The reduction in the ratio of population exercising open defecation will help in providing the better environment and health to the citizens.

• The land being used for open excretion for many years will now be available for other productive works like farming, gardening, Industries or other commercial and productive purposes.

• Although the people in urban areas are much educated yet they lack the alertness for cleanliness and proper sanitation. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a good initiative of Government of India to remind them their duties and keep their localities clean by not littering everywhere and using dustbins.

• Absence of good hygiene is also caused by the lack of proper knowledge. Poor people living in camps in urban areas do not possess education and that is why they do not understand the value of sanitation. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan has also focused on making people aware of the bad effects of poor hygiene and telling them to maintain proper cleanliness around them for their own safety.

• Cleanliness is not for our personal growth only but it is also for the growth of the nation as well. Cleaning the national birth rights and public places in India and making them choking free will grow the tourism in India that will ultimately increase the GDP of the nation and will help to run the economy smoothly.

 “Pick up the broom without being mean; our basic need is proper cleanliness and hygiene”.