page_title: Swachh Bharat Mission
section_title: Performance monitoring
hierarchical_section_title: Swachh Bharat Mission / Performance monitoring
caption_attribution_description: English: Individual household latrines coverage in rural India
context_page_description: Swachh Bharat Mission or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission is a country-wide campaign initiated by the Government of India in 2014 to eliminate open defecation and improve solid waste management in urban and rural areas. Phase 1 of the mission lasted till 2nd October 2019 and phase 2 will be in implemented in a mission mode between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
  Initiated by the Government of India, the mission aimed to achieve an "open-defecation free" India by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. The objectives of the first phase of the mission also included eradication of manual scavenging, generating awareness and bringing about a behavior change regarding sanitation practices, and augmentation of capacity at the local level. The second phase of the mission aims to sustain the open defecation free status and improve the management of solid and liquid waste. The mission is aimed at progressing towards target 6.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals Number 6 established by the United Nations in 2015.
  The campaign's official name is in Hindi. In English, it translates to "Clean India Mission".
context_section_description: Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Mobile app is being used by people and Government organisations for achieving the goals of Swachh Bharat Mission. For this the government of India is bringing awareness to the people through advertisements.
  In 2017, the national sanitation coverage rose to 65% from 38.7% on Oct 2, 2014 before the start of the campaign. It was 90% in August 2018. 35 states/Union Territories, 699 districts and 5.99 lakh villages were declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by  25 September 2019.
  The cities and towns which have been declared ODF stood at 22 percent and the urban wards which have achieved 100 percent door-to-door solid waste collection stood at 50 percent. The number of Swachhagrahi volunteers working across urban local bodies rose to 20,000, and those working in rural India rose to more than a lakh. The number of schools with separate toilet facilities for girls rose from 0.4 million (37 percent) to almost one million (91 percent).
caption: Individual household latrines coverage in rural India.
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