Context
Swachhata Hi Seva 2024 is the cleanliness drive by the Government of India for a clean and hygiene environment across the country. It seeks to engage citizens, organisations and institutions in cleanliness activities in order to foster the spirit of owning up on issues of cleanliness.
Description and Details
Objectives:
- Give the site a clean and hygienic outlook.
- Encourage people in the community to engage in cleanliness activities.
- There is a need to give people information on the need to practise hygiene.
Activities:
- Sustained cleanliness and sanitation crusades in general public areas, school compounds and other learning establishments.
- Collection of waste starting from the homes for segregation.
- Construction of toilets and sanitation centres.
- Publicity through television, radio, newspapers and magazines, educational institutions, and Social activities.
Significance
- Improved Public Health: Eradication of water-borne diseases, and health-related risks.
- Environmental Protection: Management of nature resources and decrease in emission of pollutants.
- Community Engagement: To ensure that the employees feel ownership of cleanliness, therefore, embracing the role of adopting a clean environment.
- Economic Benefits: Generation of employment opportunities and economic revival of regions.
Pros
- Mass Participation: Builds awareness of community issues, and foster people’s participation in community activities.
- Behavioural Change: They help promote cleanliness and healthy living standards in the community.
- Infrastructure Development: They enhance sanitation facilities as well as the general waste disposal framework.
Cons
- Funding Constraints: Demand a lot of funds to be invested before it can be implemented.
- Lack of Awareness: Lack of perception on the part of the general public regarding hygiene.
- Sustainability: Its roles include; Maintaining and achieving long-term sustainability of cleanliness efforts.
Challenges
- Changing Mindsets: Focusing on the nature and management of soil, reduction of contamination, and accommodation of change by applying professional judgement.
- Infrastructure Gaps:P04: Improving the standard of sanitation facilities and waste disposal in schools, college and other learning Institutions.
- Ensuring Sustainability: The need to sustain the cleaning campaign after the campaign activity.
Conclusion and Way Forward
Swachhata Hi Seva 2024 can prove to be a game-changer for the Indian scenario of cleanliness. To ensure its success:
- Increase Awareness: Inform people that clean and healthy food is critical to their lives.
- Improve Infrastructure: Ensure proper and effective provision and management of sanitation facilities and general waste Infrastructure.
- Encourage Participation: Encourage people’s involvement and participation in community activities.
- Ensure Sustainability: Establish ways of sustaining the gains that have been made in this area of clean environment.
In this way, India may clean its environment, so it will result in better and hygienic health standards of the people, safety of the environment and people’s productivity will increase because more people will be engaged in cleaning the environment.
Source: Press Information Bureau