We need to understand how critical environment agenda is in the fight against COVID-19.
Director, Centre for Science & Environment
Hygiene, health and environment are linked with each other.
Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh
We, as Indian citizens, must takes actions to stop manual scavenging.
Founder, Safai Karmachari Andolan
Swachh Bharat Mission is not just about going to the toilet or building a toilet, it’s about hygiene.
India Sanitation Coalition
We are looking at mid-2021 to get a COVID-19 vaccine; until then, follow the preventive measures.
Chief Scientist, WHO
Pandemic has taken toll in different ways and making food accessible to people is the need of the hour.
Celebrity Chef
In this time of crisis, the people should come forward to help each other.
Actor
The sections of the society who are worst-hit need to be supported and protected during COVID crisis.
Chief Minister, Delhi
We are living in unprecedented times, metal health, swachhta and environment are part of Swasth today.
Lyricist
Today, the world looks at India for vaccine supply.
CEO, Serum Institute of India
Delhi schools have happiness curriculum where kids start their day with topics like intolerance and inclusivity.
Former Advisor to Delhi Deputy CM on Education
Social distancing, mask-wearing and handwashing - if we follow these, we will be able to fight the pandemic.
Director, AIIMS
Amid COVID-19, cleanliness, hygiene and sanitised surroundings are the only protection we have.
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
I hope that all of us can bring about major changes in our lives because we are all big polluters.
Actor
The current pandemic is an example of the broken relationship of humans and the environment.
Actor
We have more than 83,000 COVID-19 beds in government hospitals, out of which 65% are vacant.
Minister Of Health and Social Welfare, Kerala
Every mother is trying to do the best for her child.
Actor
You can learn a lot from the people around you.
Actor
We need to have a very balanced approach for development.
Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India
Healthcare workers fighting COVID-19 on the frontline are the real heroes.
Campaign Ambassador
If the surrounding are healthy, then the body will remain healthy.
Minister of Health and Family Welfare
The whole planet needs that the rivers and the environment remain healthy.
Jal Shakti Minister
Nutrition is very important, what we eat is what we are.
Actor
We need to connect with the last mile on health issues especially in terms of preventive healthcare.
President, Yuva Sena
Clean water and uncontaminated food need to be provided to people.
Union Minister of Food & Public Distribution,
The need to cut plastic is being realised a large scale now
Minister of State, PMO
Feeding the child in a hygienic environment is also important for mothers and children
Actor
Indore waste management model must be implemented in all municipalities in India
CEO, Niti Aayog
Politics should be kept of issues of cleanliness.
Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India
We must find alternatives to single-use plastics.
UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador
Imagine if we can have clean air, clean water and nutritious food for all.
Campaign Ambassador
A WHO study finds that by the end of Swachh Bharat Mission, more than 3 lakh lives of children below 5 years of age would be saved.
Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation
India's sanitation cover stands at 98 percent today, as the health minister, I'm the happiest man because of this.
Union Health Minister
Vision of clean India will be incomplete till we become healthy.
Campaign Ambassador
Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Swachhta has become a people's mission in Jharkhand.
Chief Minister, Jharkhand
The need of the hour is to focus on primary health and wellness centres to eliminate anemia and malnutrition.
CEO, NITI Aayog
Women can be saved by changing the cooking pattern, over one million women die due to smoke from cooking.
Celebrity Chef and Nutritionist
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.
Actor
ODF India is the right of every Indian and Clean India is the responsibility of every citizen.
Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Wherever toilets are being built, water should be provided too, because without water toilets are only creating more diseases.
Yoga Guru & Entrepreneur
Swachh India campaign has become a jan andolan (People's movement) and is no more a sarkari (Government) initiative.
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
Swachh Bharat is a great initiative undertaken by the Prime Minister, I only wish as a country we had started much earlier.
Actor & Politician
Sanitation is more important than political independence.
Chief Minister, Karnataka
We are now moving from swachhta to swasthya. Health is very important, especially for women.
Chief Minister, Jharkhand
I believe people are getting educated. I think that the generation after us will be able to make a visible difference towards the environment.
Actor
I am 29 years old and that is not such long lifespan but the deterioration all around in terms of the environment is worrying.
Actor
I can say with confidence that Chhattisgarh will be 100% open defecation before October 2019.
Chief Minister, Chhattisgarh
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.
Finance Minister
Waste to wealth is the way forward to make India clean.
Road Transport & Highways & Water Resources Minister
Let's make India clean, green and healthy.
Campaign Ambassador
Plastic threatens to become a menace to humanity. A lot of it doesn’t make it to recycling plants and is non-biodegradable.
Prime Minister
Open Defecation Free can bring maximum health benefits, but we need to make sure that we sustain our ODF tag.
Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation
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.
Chair, India Sanitation Coalition
Maharashtra is already free from open defecation, now we are working towards sustaining the ODF tag.
Chief Minister, Maharashtra
By March 2019, we aim to clean 70-80 per cent of the Ganga.
Minister For Water Resources And Ganga Rejuvenation
We have observed where there are separate toilets at home, there is a reduction in child sex abuses.
Nobel Peace Laureate and Children’s Rights Activist
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.
Campaign Ambassador
Awareness is the only way through which one realises what all needs to be done to make India a clean country.
Actor
At a time when we talk about Bullet Trains, Mars Mission, we are unable to provide basic safety equipment to scavengers for cleaning sewers.
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
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.
Actor
We are polluting in every way, every year. We have to make people realise that there’s a better way to manage waste.
Actor
Key appeal to all public servants, get on the bike and start seeing the waste around.
Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry
#Mere10guz is a good initiative that can boost Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Singer
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.
Chief Minister, Jharkhand
We really need to manage this plastic menace that we have created.
Actor
People are becoming aware. Now if people litter from a car, passersby give dirty looks.
Actor
If every person will keep 10 yards of their surroundings clean, then the whole city will be cleaned up.
Campaign Ambassador
The dream of a Swachh Bharat will be realised by 125 crore Indians, not a select group of leaders or officials.
Prime Minister
Swachh Bharat and Swasth Bharat go hand in hand, they are interlinked and that’s where I want my India to focus on.
Former Indian Cricketer
We are targeting to make Jharkhand open defecation free by 2018.
Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Cleanliness is next to Godliness and God is everywhere, so we should work towards keeping it clean everywhere.
Singer
We should have rules that penalise people for not keeping their surroundings clean.
Chairman, Jindal Steel and Power
We need to focus on recycling, be it water or waste.
Minister of Rural Development, Women and Child Welfare
Go in for total involvement, include children, societies, administration; everyone has a role to play in the clean-up process.
Lieutenant Governor, Puducherry
When State Government & Centre are put behind a cause like this, it is bound to succeed.
Actor & Politician
Plastic is the biggest culprit and cause a lot of the issues with garbage disposal.
Actor
Use jute bags instead of plastic ones.
Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh
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.
Actor
We need to ingrain the idea of Swachhta in children as early as possible.
Actor
We need to focus on the Swachh cause for our children & we have a responsibility towards Mother Earth. It is important to start young.
Actor
Puducherry will be totally open defecation free by October 2, 2017.
Chief Minister of Puducherry
Banega Swachh India has become a movement in the true sense of the term.
Chairman, Mahindra Group
Khadi can be a good alternative to plastic and it will also generate employment.
Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
I have full faith that our aim of Swachh Bharat will be realised.
Minister of Human Resource Development
Chhattisgarh to be Open Defecation Free by 2018.
Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
Let's make Gandhiji's dream come true and make India clean.
Campaign Ambassador
Bio-toilets are being implemented in our trains on a large scale but we also need to tackle open defecation on tracks.
Minister of Railways
Swachhta is not anybody else's problem, it is our problem.
Vocalist
There's going to be a substancial increase in economic & social values with #swachhindia.
Chief Executive, Reckitt Benckiser Plc
People have to take more responsibility and commit themselves to not dirty their Bharat Mata.
Cricketer
Sustaining the efforts of a clean-up drive more important.
Actor
The problem is not cleanliness, the problem is sense of propriety.
Poet, Lyricist and Scriptwriter
This clean-up campaign should have begun some 50 years ago. #SwachhIndia
Classical Musician
Apart from cleaning up our societies and neighbourhoods, we need to clean our thoughts.
Director
#SwachhIndia shouldn't just be a photo-op.
Founder of Patanjali Group of Institutions
We not only need to teach the children about Swachhta, but also their parents, we cannot leave them out.
Actor
Public participation is essential. If people don't practice, toilets are built but they end up as storage spaces.
Chief Minister, Maharashtra