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Amitabh Bachchan has donated sewer cleaning machines and one truck machine that can clean sewers and help fight the inhumane practice of manual scavenging

No other government scheme has seen the kind of success as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, asserted Amitabh Bachchan in his World Toilet Day message

Campaign ambassador Amitabh Bachchan blogs about the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India 12-hour Cleanathon and raises the issue of Manual Scavenging in India

Join Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan for NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India 12-Hour Cleanathon with an aim to meet Swachh Bharat Abhiyan's deadline of making India open defecation free by 2019

In its fifth year, the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India Cleanthon looks back at the achievements of the last five years of the campaign and sets the agenda for the initiative going forward. Together with Campaign Ambassador Amitabh Bachchan, the annual Cleanathon has worked relentlessly for five years to help build toilets in rural areas, conduct clean-up drives and spread awareness about sanitation, health and hygiene across India. Every year the Cleanathon celebrates Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 as Rashtriya Swachhta Diwas. NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign lends support to the Government of India's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, with the target to make India open defecation free (ODF) by October 2, 2019, which happens to be the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

With cleanliness and hygiene becoming growing concerns in the country, India’s most trusted news network NDTV, along with partner Dettol, is back with the fifth season of the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign. Helmed by Vikram Chandra and Campaign Ambassador – Amitabh Bachchan, the campaign is aimed at spreading awareness about sanitation, empowering citizens with better hygiene and sanitation facilities across the country, helping make India open defecation free by working with partners to support ground interventions for construction, maintenance of toilets and drive behavioral change.

At the launch of Swachhata Hi Seva by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, actor Amitabh Bachchan praised the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India campaign for spreading the message of cleanliness around the country

Ahead of World Environment Day, Union Environment Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan pledges to ditch single-use disposable plastic bottles. He further nominates Actor Amitabh Bachchan, Cricketer Virat Kohli

A nation of swachagrahis can make India clean and healthy, take part in #SwachhIndia contest and help the country meet its goals by 2019

Actor Amitabh Bachchan joins hands with the Environment Ministry ahead of World Environment Day, lends support to beat plastic pollution campaign

The man behind Versova beach clean-up pledges to give up on single-use disposable plastic cups

Campaign ambassador Amitabh Bachchan blogs about the NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India new season launch on May 11. Read excerpt of the blog here. The blog was first published on his official Tumblr blog on May 12, 2018.

Leading the way on how children can make a swachh difference, a young warrior from Sherwood School, Amitabh Bachchan's alma mater, recites an inspiring poem on cleanliness

The aim of the Champaran Satyagraha is to urge more and more people to join the swachh cause across 38 districts of Bihar, which has so far done poorly in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan with just 45% of its people having access to toilets after four years of the campaign