{"id":2723,"date":"2020-10-05T15:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T10:15:22","slug":"indias-odf-status-urban-india-odf-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classiciasacademy.com\/blog\/indias-odf-status-urban-india-odf-free\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s ODF Status – Urban India ODF Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In News<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
A recent survey shows that urban India is 99% open\ndefecation free.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
In-Detail<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The latest survey shows, 99% of the Indian\ncities under urban bodies have become open defecation free (ODF).<\/li>
Due to the pandemic, the survey of the urban\nbodies could not be done in West Bengal.<\/li>
India\u2019s urban areas are officially becoming open defecation\nfree.<\/li>
The West Bengal government\u2019s performance is\nexemplary in the Swachh Bharat Mission.<\/li>
In solid waste management, the West Bengal\nensured 90% door to door collection and the rate of segregation is increasing\nrapidly.<\/li>
Quality Council of India is visiting ULBs as\nthird parties and declared more than 20 ULBs as ODF and 75 ULBs have been\nself-declared ODFs.<\/strong><\/li>
From a position of zero ODF states and cities in\n2014, 99% have today become ODF.<\/li>
After completing the assessments in 45 cities of\nWest Bengal, it will become 100%.<\/li>
The data shows that of the 4372 cities in India\nto be made ODF, 4,323 stands declared as ODF which is 99% and 4204 stand as ODF\nverified cities.<\/li>
Open defecation has been a problem in rural\nareas of India.<\/li>
India has claimed that 5,999,963 villages of the\ncountry have attained ODF status by the construction of the required toilets\nunder Swachh Bharat Rural Mission.<\/li>
The government has spent more than Rs 11 lakh\ncrore in the urban space in the six years.<\/li>
This is a quantum jump from Rs 1.55 lakh crore\nin the urban areas spent in 10 years.<\/li>
The Centre\u2019s\ndata shows solid waste management processing has gone up to 67% from 1% in\n2014.<\/li>
The target is to reach 100% by the time India\ncelebrates 75 years of Independence in 2022 in the 500 Indian cities under the Atal\nMission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation Scheme (AMRUT).<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Swachh Bharat Mission<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Launched in the year 2014, Swachh Bharat\nMission (SBM) is Central Government\u2019s flagship scheme aimed at making India\nopen defecation free.<\/strong><\/li>
The Mission also has solid waste management as\none of its main components.<\/li>
The Mission is divided into two components as\nSwachh Bharat Mission (Urban) and Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural).<\/li>
While SBM-Urban is being overseen by the\nMinistry of Housing and Urban Affairs, the Ministry of Drinking Water and\nSanitation is overseeing the SBM-Rural. <\/li>
The Mission is being implemented in two phases. <\/li>
Under phase I, which lasted till October 2019,\nthe target of the mission was to eradicate manual scavenging, generate\nawareness about good sanitation practices and augmenting sanitation capacity at\nthe local level.<\/li>
By constructing toilets at household levels, the\nscheme aims to eradicate open defection. Also, construction of community\ntoilets and public toilets are part of the scheme.<\/li>
To make states and cities to compete and\nmaintain their cleanliness status, a ranking exercise called Swachh\nSurvekshan<\/strong> has also been launched under the SBM-Urban Mission.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
AMRUT <\/p>\n\n\n\n
AMRUT ( Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and\nUrban Transformation) <\/strong>was launched in the year 2015. <\/strong><\/li>
The programme is aimed at providing robust\nsewage networks, tapped drinking water, urban transportation and other\namenities in an urban area.<\/li>
The projects under the scheme are carried out in\nPublic-Private-Partnership (PPP) model.<\/li>
As per the official website of the AMRUT\nMission, the purpose of the mission is to
Ensure\ntapped water and sewage connection to every household
Develop\ngreenery and well-maintained parks to increase amenity value of cities <\/li><\/ul>
Reduce\npollution by making public transport available and developing non-motorised\ncommuting infrastructure such as walking and cycling tracks<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"