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I believe in a nation of 1.3 billion people, no government will be able to manage cleanliness unless it comes from within the people individually.
Vicky Kaushal
Actor
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ODF India is the right of every Indian and Clean India is the responsibility of every citizen.
Uma Bharti
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation
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Wherever toilets are being built, water should be provided too, because without water toilets are only creating more diseases.
Baba Ramdev
Yoga Guru & Entrepreneur
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Swachh India campaign has become a jan andolan (People's movement) and is no more a sarkari (Government) initiative.
Parameswaran Iyer
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
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Swachh Bharat is a great initiative undertaken by the Prime Minister, I only wish as a country we had started much earlier.
Hema Malini
Actor & Politician
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Sanitation is more important than political independence.
H D Kumaraswamy
Chief Minister, Karnataka
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We are now moving from swachhta to swasthya. Health is very important, especially for women.
Raghubar Das
Chief Minister, Jharkhand
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I believe people are getting educated. I think that the generation after us will be able to make a visible difference towards the environment.
Arjun Kapoor
Actor
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I am 29 years old and that is not such long lifespan but the deterioration all around in terms of the environment is worrying.
Parineeti Chopra
Actor
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I can say with confidence that Chhattisgarh will be 100% open defecation before October 2019.
Raman Singh
Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh
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When Swachh Bharat Mission was launched, people thought this will be just another photo op. But this has turned out to be a people's movement.
Arun Jaitley
Finance Minister
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Waste to wealth is the way forward to make India clean.
Nitin Gadkari
Road Transport & Highways & Water Resources Minister
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Let's make India clean, green and healthy.
Amitabh Bachchan
Campaign Ambassador
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Plastic threatens to become a menace to humanity. A lot of it doesn’t make it to recycling plants and is non-biodegradable.
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister
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Open Defecation Free can bring maximum health benefits, but we need to make sure that we sustain our ODF tag.
Parameswaran Iyer
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
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In rural India, 80% villages are truly ODF. That's the big success we have made, we have shifted our focus from building toilets to actually using toilets.
Naina Lal Kidwai
Chair, India Sanitation Coalition
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Maharashtra is already free from open defecation, now we are working towards sustaining the ODF tag.
Devendra Fadnavis
Chief Minister, Maharashtra
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By March 2019, we aim to clean 70-80 per cent of the Ganga.
Nitin Gadkari
Minister For Water Resources And Ganga Rejuvenation
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We have observed where there are separate toilets at home, there is a reduction in child sex abuses.
Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Laureate and Children’s Rights Activist
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Each person should motivate at least 2-3 other people around them to keep their surroundings clean. This is how we can make India clean.
Amitabh Bachchan
Campaign Ambassador
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Awareness is the only way through which one realises what all needs to be done to make India a clean country.
Alia Bhatt
Actor
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At a time when we talk about Bullet Trains, Mars Mission, we are unable to provide basic safety equipment to scavengers for cleaning sewers.
Jaya Bachchan
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
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Only way we can hope to become a ‘Swachh Bharat’ is by proper waste management. Single use plastic should be banned to curb plastic menace.
Dia Mirza
Actor
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We are polluting in every way, every year. We have to make people realise that there’s a better way to manage waste.
Raveena Tandon
Actor
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Key appeal to all public servants, get on the bike and start seeing the waste around.
Kiran Bedi
Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry
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#Mere10guz is a good initiative that can boost Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Shankar Mahadevan
Singer
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Jharkhand will be the third state along with Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh to make its urban areas ODF. We will make rural Jharkhand ODF by October 2018.
Raghubar Das
Chief Minister, Jharkhand
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We really need to manage this plastic menace that we have created.
John Abraham
Actor
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People are becoming aware. Now if people litter from a car, passersby give dirty looks.
Anupam Kher
Actor
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If every person will keep 10 yards of their surroundings clean, then the whole city will be cleaned up.
Amitabh Bachchan
Campaign Ambassador
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The dream of a Swachh Bharat will be realised by 125 crore Indians, not a select group of leaders or officials.
Narendra ModiPrime Minister
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Swachh Bharat and Swasth Bharat go hand in hand, they are interlinked and that’s where I want my India to focus on.
Sachin Tendulkar
Former Indian Cricketer
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We are targeting to make Jharkhand open defecation free by 2018.
Raghubar Das
Chief Minister of Jharkhand
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness and God is everywhere, so we should work towards keeping it clean everywhere.
Harshdeep Kaur
Singer
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We should have rules that penalise people for not keeping their surroundings clean.
Navin Jindal
Chairman, Jindal Steel and Power
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We need to focus on recycling, be it water or waste.
Pankaja Munde
Minister of Rural Development, Women and Child Welfare
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Go in for total involvement, include children, societies, administration; everyone has a role to play in the clean-up process.
Kiran Bedi
Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry
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When State Government & Centre are put behind a cause like this, it is bound to succeed.
Gul Panag
Actor & Politician
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Plastic is the biggest culprit and cause a lot of the issues with garbage disposal.
Jeetendra
Actor
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Use jute bags instead of plastic ones.
Virbhadra Singh
Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
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The problem of plastic waste is acute & it's important for people to understand that it is a deterrent to the health of the people.
Dia Mirza
Actor
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We need to ingrain the idea of Swachhta in children as early as possible.
Tisca Chopra
Actor
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We need to focus on the Swachh cause for our children & we have a responsibility towards Mother Earth. It is important to start young.
Divya Khosla Kumar
Actor
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Puducherry will be totally open defecation free by October 2, 2017.
V Narayanasamy
Chief Minister of Puducherry
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Banega Swachh India has become a movement in the true sense of the term.
Anand Mahindra
Chairman, Mahindra Group
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Khadi can be a good alternative to plastic and it will also generate employment.
Ram Vilas Paswan
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
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I have full faith that our aim of Swachh Bharat will be realised.
Prakash Javadekar
Minister of Human Resource Development
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Chhattisgarh to be Open Defecation Free by 2018.
Raman Singh
Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
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Let's make Gandhiji's dream come true and make India clean.
Amitabh Bachchan
Campaign Ambassador
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Bio-toilets are being implemented in our trains on a large scale but we also need to tackle open defecation on tracks.
Suresh Prabhu
Minister of Railways
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Swachhta is not anybody else's problem, it is our problem.
Pandit Jasraj
Vocalist
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There's going to be a substancial increase in economic & social values with #swachhindia.
Rakesh Kapoor
Chief Executive, Reckitt Benckiser Plc
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People have to take more responsibility and commit themselves to not dirty their Bharat Mata.
Sachin Tendulkar
Cricketer
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Sustaining the efforts of a clean-up drive more important.
Priyanka Chopra
Actor
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The problem is not cleanliness, the problem is sense of propriety.
Javed Akhtar
Poet, Lyricist and Scriptwriter
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This clean-up campaign should have begun some 50 years ago. #SwachhIndia
Ustad Amjad Ali Khan
Classical Musician
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Apart from cleaning up our societies and neighbourhoods, we need to clean our thoughts.
Kunal Kohli
Director
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#SwachhIndia shouldn't just be a photo-op.
Baba Ramdev
Founder of Patanjali Group of Institutions
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We not only need to teach the children about Swachhta, but also their parents, we cannot leave them out.
Jaya Bachchan
Actor
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Public participation is essential. If people don't practice, toilets are built but they end up as storage spaces.
Devendra Fadnavis
Chief Minister, Maharashtra
