Swachh Bharat, My Bharat

As soon as Modi becomes prime minister of India, he starts taking numerous praiseworthy decisions to uplift the presence of India, both politically and financially in global map. One of the very successful campaigns, after the Pradhan Mantry Jan Dhan Yojana Scheme by his ministry and his personal effort, is swachh Bharat Abhiyan. His this initiation to keep our country clean will be a befitting tribute and reverence for nation’s father, Mahatma Gandhi on his 150^th birth anniversary on 2^nd October 2019. This scheme will be of immense benefit to the society and  his purposeful thinking to implement the same  will bring joy to every Indian irrespective of class, race, creed and religion.

Almost all the prime ministers of the past had delved into the theme of proper sanitation, maintain a good health for his people and better living. But, Modi has taken utmost pain to ensure that this theory of well being of the common folk of India must be translated into a practical domain. You will find many streets and localities of Delhi and Gujarat and some other parts of India are under the influence to augment this abhiyan of Swachh Bharat. It has been seen that in some places, he has also involved himself in this cleaning drive. This is the glaring example of ‘’leading from the front.’’ The people are so inspired that they have started voluntarily cleaning the roads, streets, pavements and places in their respective localities with long handled broomstick. If this tempo is continued, very soon, we will able to visualize and feel a swachh Bharat with proper sanitation, water and sewage system to help every citizen to lead a healthy life.    

Our media are also showing Modi’s pictures, BJP’s other members and common people’s  inclination to participate in this swachh abhiyan to make this noble cause a successful one. In this way, the present BJP government can touch the issues of clean water, well-functioning drainage, sewage and solid waste management in almost all the cities of India irrespective of the local government’s political affiliation as allies  of the BJP or not.

But this campaign needs resources in terms of financial and manpower, which is a formidable task. People must come forward to energize the activities of making Bharat as swachh Bharat. The adequate support of financial help must come from the industrialists, owners of medium sizes business, people who can afford to contribute significantly and a meaningful donation from the common people. In fact, Modi’s attempt is to juxtapose everybody to fulfill this campaign. Mahatma Gandhi saw the dream of a clean India when he wrote in 1925, “A lavatory must be as clean as a drawing room. I learnt this in the west. I believe that many rules about cleanliness in lavatories are observed more scrupulously in the west than in the east.”

This campaign of Swachh Bharat must be supplemented by strengthening public health, which means clean pond, pollution free water management system, disinfected storage water, use of mosquito repellent and safe and hygienic drinking water. In fact, almost in all the places of Western countries and some parts of Asian countries, namely Singapore, you can safely drink water flowing even from the bathroom’s tap.

Modi has started a very thoughtful program and now each state government has to strengthen their administrative machineries to initiate planning and policies to carry forward this abhiyan. They must provide an independent budget to continue these activities and if needed, a government cum public fund can be established to continue this work for a long term basis. This type of scheme can’t yield any fruitful result in the short term.

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Modi is dreaming for a swatch Bharat so that the people of this country can lead a good and healthy life in the remaining part of twenty first century. All we have to do, is to support and ensure to carry on this campaign as we did to eradicate polio. Modi is fundamentally very clear that he can turn  our  Bharat as swachh Bharat. The only one thing he needs from us that is our wholehearted cooperation to make this abhiyan very successful.