In to its fifth Season, NDTV-Dettol Banega Swachh India will focus on children as agents of change to drive the Swachh Agenda – Sanitation, Wash, Air Pollution, Cleanliness, Health And Hygiene.
Take the pledge to adopt the Swachh Agenda (details below) and do your bit to realise the dream of Clean India.
Sanitation: End Open Defecation
This year, Banega Swachh India campaign will hope to motivate people to construct toilets and help meet the country’s ODF deadline
Though India’s sanitation coverage has moved up to 83 percent now from mere 38 percent in 2014, the country still has one of the highest numbers of people who still defecate in the open.
Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, more than 7 crore toilets have been built and open defecation eradicated from 17 states and Union Territories (UTs). According to government data, around 3 lakh villages, 382 districts have become open defecation free. In urban areas, as of March 2018, the government has successfully built 52 lakh toilets and 3.2 lakh community toilets.
The target of the government is to make 12 crore toilets in total and achieve 100 percent open defecation free India by October 2, 2019.
The agenda of Banega Swachh India season 5 is to help motivate people to construct toilets and help meet the country’s ODF deadline.
Wash: Practise Hand-washing
This year, the campaign will focus on inculcating hand-washing as a regular practise
Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the transmission of diseases and infections. Still, in India 47 percent of the people do not wash their hands after going to the toilet. This is why in India about 1.2 lakh children die every year due to diarrhoea. According to UNICEF, handwashing with soap – before eating or preparing food and after using the toilet – can reduce diarrhoea rates by more than 40 percent.
This year, the campaign will also focus on inculcating hand-washing as a regular practice in school through its WASH programmes.
Air pollution: Do Your Bit For Clean Air
Banega Swachh India Season 5 will focus on spreading awareness on how people can reduce their carbon footprint and help clean India’s air
The latest World Health Organisation (WHO) report has listed 14 Indian cities among the Top 20 most polluted cities in the world with respect to particulate matter (PM) 2.5 concentration. According to the Lancet Report, released last year, India has topped the list of countries with the most pollution-related deaths in 2015, with 2.5 million mortalities linked to poor quality of air. Experts say that the deaths in India caused due to air pollution is more than the deaths caused due to all the wars and terror attacks over the years in India.
With a hope to mobilise people to work towards cleaning up the air everyone breathes, Banega Swachh India Season 5 will focus on tree plantations and spreading awareness about how people can reduce their carbon footprint to breathe easy and save lives.
Cleanliness: Stop Littering
This year, Banega Swachh India campaign will focus on converting individual efforts into collective success stories
According to estimates, 70 percent of all solid waste generated, is not getting treated or disposed of scientifically and so it ends up contaminating soil and water systems, thereby polluting the environment.
Keeping India clean does not only lie in the hands of the government alone. With this as our motto, this year, the Banega Swachh India campaign aims to, not only motivate people to keep the 10 yards of their surroundings clean on a regular basis but would also like everyone to come together and encourage others to do the same.
Health: Work For A Healthy Future
Banega Swachh India campaign will also focus on building a healthy nation – that’s free from open defecation, air pollution, diseases and garbage
From sanitation to hygiene and air pollution, all these issues are affecting the adults and our damaging the health of children drastically.
With an aim to save the future generation, this year Banega Swachh India campaign will focus on Health as a whole and make it a priority for everyone to build a healthy Nation.
Hygiene: Make India Clean By 2019
The overall focus, this year, will be to help India meet its open defecation free target by 2019
The deadline for a clean, open defecation free India has been set for October 2, 2019. By then, we must reach our goals of inculcating hygienic habits in our lives – bringing safe sanitation to every individual, improving our air quality and cleaning up our country.
With this deadline in mind, Banega Swachh India Season 5 has come up with an initiative #YourHandInMine with an aim to convert individual efforts into a greater collective community action. So, while each one of us focusses on keeping ourselves healthy and our surroundings clean, we can also lend a hand and help others to do so, thereby, creating a ripple effect to create a sustainable Swachh ecosystem.
Devayani Medhekar
May 11, 2018 at 9:52 am
Great initiative! Tell me how I can join the campaign.
DUSHYANT SINGH PUNDIR
May 11, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Exceillent afford for india how to join this event .
Suresh uttam chavan
May 12, 2018 at 4:22 am
Sir, I’ve so many ideas about all kind of waste materials.solutions and create more than 3 lakh employment. With best facilities provided. But i do not have platform to show. And finance for starting business.how could you help me. Plz notify me.
Thank you
Shaikh shahbaz
May 14, 2018 at 6:01 pm
I joint ndtv good work ravish kumar
S A Siddiqui
July 30, 2018 at 12:36 pm
Dear NDTV Team,
I appreciate the work you are doing towards making India clean and green. I request you to adopt small residential colonies and help with tree plantation. People are ready to plant but without any barrier to protect the tree from stray animals, tree plantation loses its significance. Your team can also help in painting socially relevent issues by way of grafitti on walls. This way it is easier to send message accross to common citizens. Just as “Hum Do Hamare Do” campaign of Deluxe Nirodh condoms was a hit and common decades ago, lets make Swachh Bharat logos a common sight everywhere.
Vaibhav Babaso Gaikwad
October 2, 2018 at 10:26 am
That’s a very good job so I have also want that includes in your program
Kushal Baid
October 2, 2018 at 12:48 pm
Dear NDTV Team,
I appreciate the work you are doing towards making India clean and green. I request you to adopt small residential colonies and help with tree plantation.
this request is by a child of 13yrs old (me). as i am ceo co-founder of kushal gurukul in which till now only one student come because it start now
and i teach my students how to make india clean and green
Venkat Krishnan
October 2, 2018 at 6:37 pm
I have watched past Greenathons and Cleanathons fully.. today I was able to watch only in parts.There is a lot of talk about ODF. I want to know if anyone spoke about “Open Urination Free”..OUF.
It is not that everyone defecates openly… this regrettable truth is part of the lives of the underprivileged slum dwellers.
But many many people enagage in open urination. I have seen people drive in Audis and BMW s ,stop by in apparent wilderness and urinate. Truckdrivers, courier delivery boys, anyone and everyone does it without any shame !!!
Same applies to open spitting.
So we need to tackle these 2 Urination and Spitting
sushma gupta
October 2, 2018 at 10:39 pm
I’m giving hand wash demo in Govt schools how to join this compaingn
PRASUN DAS
November 3, 2018 at 8:49 pm
I want to join your mission for hhelping to reach PM Modi’s ambition about “Swachh Bharat Swasta Bharat “.
I already start a campaign at my village. I need some help for future vission & need to know some techniques about how to aware common peoples smartly.
Thanking you.
Mayank Sanghvi
November 11, 2018 at 12:13 pm
I would like to join this campaign to make clean india
Gaurav Singhal
November 28, 2018 at 11:04 am
I am a common man from ghaziabad city. In our colony there was a undeveloped park of 400 meter like a dumping ground for garbage. I complained for development of this park to many authorities and Nagar Nigam but no one done anything for this park in past years. In 2018 i committed to change the look of a garbage park to develop park with greenery. I successed in that. For this development i purchase many plants. All plants in this 400 meter park planted by me.
Now i am battling for the boundrywall of this park since one year but all in vain.
I also developed a site related to swachhta awareness http://www.gogreenghaziabad.yolasite.com
Bunty
April 11, 2019 at 9:45 am
I live in Delhi..hamare gali me sari aurate garabage burn krti h jiska dhua ankho aur gale ko irritate krta h.plz do something..