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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Hindi: , English: Clean India Mission) is a

national campaign by the Government of India, covering 4041 statutory towns, to


clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country.[1][2][3]
This campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi,
where Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself cleaned the road. It is India's biggest
ever cleanliness drive and 3 million government employees and school and college
students of India participated in this event.[4][5] The mission was started by Prime
Minister Modi, who nominated nine famous personalities for the campaign, and they
took up the challenge and nominated nine more people and so on (like the branching
of a tree). It has been carried forward since then with people from all walks of life
joining it.
The components of the programme as listed in the SBM guidelines are: a)
Construction of individual sanitary latrines for households below the poverty line with
subsidy (80%) where demand exists. b) Conversion of dry latrines into low-cost
sanitary latrines. c) Construction of exclusive village sanitary complexes for women
providing facilities for hand pumping, bathing, sanitation and washing on a selective
basis where there is not adequate land or space within houses and where
village panchayats are willing to maintain the facilities. d) Setting up of sanitary marts.
e) Total sanitation of villages through the construction of drains, soakage pits, solid
and liquid waste disposal. f) Intensive campaign for awareness generation and health
education to create a felt need for personal, household and environmental sanitation
facilities
With effect from 1 April 1999, the Government of India restructured the
Comprehensive Rural Sanitation Programme and launched the Total Sanitation
Campaign (TSC).
To give a fillip to the Total Sanitation Campaign, effective June 2003 the government
launched an incentive scheme in the form of an award for total sanitation coverage,
maintenance of a clean environment and open defecation-free panchayat villages,
blocks and districts called Nirmal Gram Puraskar.

There are arguments for and against the given topic "Swach Bharat" in the
debate. You need to write proper dialogues and add your proper points too.
Start - Introduction:
Hello every one! Good day to you all. We have a nation-wide important topic
to debate today. Mr Ind will talk on the side of the mission and Mr Pak is
going to attack him from all sides. So just keep your ears open and eyes
hooked on to them. Okay, Mr Ind, start off.
Debate and arguments:
Ind: Swach bhaarat or clean india is an excellent mission started by prime
minister Modi. See it will clean Indian towns and cities. It will be good for all.
Pak: First of all, why did this mission come about? People of India are so
stupid and backward. They do not even know simple things and behave like
animals. They defecate in the open. They litter every where. That is why
foreigners hate Indian people and India. They do not want to come to India.
Ind : Unfortunately, people of India being uneducated and poor, could not
think of these things. Further, they had been neglected by others. But
remember Indian culture is one of the best cultures in the world since ages.
Now government has taken proper steps towards building Clean India.
Pak: You may be right. But do you think it is practical. The mission requires
too much of money. We don't have so much money in our economy. Perhaps
it will stop in between. It will only result in enhancing the political image of
NDA government.
Ind : What are you saying? Mr Modi has already amassed a lot of support
from public too. Many people are voluntarily participating in it. It will continue.
Pak: People will do as long as they have enthusiasm. NDA may not be able
to fund it after some years. Then,
IND: By then people will be used to doing their duties as they should. SO
there is no need to explicitly do any mission. The publicity given now and the
programs being organized are spreading quickly around India. Poor people
are also learning about it.
Pak: Poor people are so ignorant. They do not know and can not learn any
thing. they defecate on the road sides. It is so disgusting to go in villages.
They do not have money to construct even toilets.
IND: Now clean India has planned construction of toilets. Once the education
level of poor villagers betters, they will take care of sanitation themselves. It is
only a matter of a few years.

Pak: What about schools? There are so many schools being organized in
open air, old buildings, with no water, toilets etc. Indians will never improve.
Ind: Well in thousands of schools there are toilets being built in the next five
years. After a decade people of India will be rich and aware of sanitation.
They will take care of themselves. All children now are aware of this. They
will not forget about it.
Conclusion:
So we agree that swachch bharat is a good mission and will do good to
people of india. We understand that there is a lot of effort in this. There is also
a lot of education of people and a lot of money to be spent. However, let us
hope that in 5 years people will practice sanitation and cleanliness and
continue for ever.

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