Cleaning Villages under Swachh Bharat
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Parallel cleanliness initiatives in both Urban and Rural India are important to maintain and build the Swachh Bharat momentum and engage as many Indians!
Swachh Bharat Mission
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Taking Swachh Bharat to Indian Villages
1. Awareness campaigns on cleanliness should be organised in villages
2. The Sarpanch should be made responsible for enforcing cleanliness in his village
3. People could team up with NGOs to train the villagers on waste disposal
4. People could make teams to visit the nearby villages on weekends for cleaning activities and encourage the villagers to do it too
5. Items like gloves, dustbins etc. could be donated to villages
6. Competition for the ‘cleanest village’ could be organized amongst a cluster of villages to encourage people to keep their surroundings clean
7. NGOs like Sulabh could be partnered with to open public toilets in villages
8. People could volunteer to go to village schools to give cleanliness lessons to children
9. MPs/MLAs, Business houses and famous personalities could adopt villages and lead a sustained cleanliness initiative there. more