At the time of the commencement of the Swachh Bharat Mission, more than 66-lakh households were lacking toilets. Now in the current scenario, we have built or are building more than 57 lakh toilets, says V K Jindal, Joint Secretary, Swachh Bharat Mission, Government of India, in conversation with Gautam Debroy of Elets News Network (ENN).
What is the current status of Swachh Bharat Mission ?
With a target of cleaning India by 2019, when we will be celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Swachh Bharat Mission is currently one of the favourite projects of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Mission itself is divided into two parts. One is the rural part, which is looked after the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, and the other is urban part, which is taken care of by us. We want to create Open Defecation Free zones and Garbage Free Zones under the urban part.
At the time of the commencement of the Mission, more than 66 lakh households were lacking toilets and only 20 per cent of the total waste generated was processed. In 2014, 95 lakh tonne capacity treatment plants were present in the country. The compost plants at that time were having a capacity of 53 lakh tonne per annum.
Now in the current scenario, we have built or are building more than 57 lakh toilets. We have completed 86 per cent of our target. If Bihar and Odisha complete their target of building nine lakh toilets this year, we are pretty sure that by 2nd October, 2018, we will be able to achieve the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In the slums of the urban areas, we have decided to build community toilets since there is a shortage of space and the rest of the areas will be covered by the public toilets. Till now we have constructed 45 lakh public toilets.
We are expecting to complete our targets by 2018, one year ahead of the scheduled 2019. The capacity of treatment plants have been increased to 1.75 crore tonne per annum .
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