Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 Gramin – Policy Update 2021
On 2nd October 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission with the objective of "to accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put the focus on sanitation". Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) are two components of the Swachh Bharat Mission, focusing on rural and urban sanitation. Under Phase 1 of the mission, on 2 October 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, all villages, Gram Panchayats, Districts, States, and Union Territories in India had declared themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF) by constructing over 100 million toilets in rural India, costing close to Rs 1.3 Lakh Crore.