About Us
Smart Cities focus on their most pressing needs and on the greatest opportunities to improve lives. In the approach to the Swatch Bharat Mission, the objective is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life to its citizens, a clean and sustainable environment and application of 'Smart' Solutions. It is evident that inadequate sanitation and poor hygienic practices lead to huge public health costs as well as environmental and other welfare impacts. Previous research has shown that in low-income countries, investments in sanitation reap a high benefit at least five times greater than the amount invested2-4. Better sanitation in the West during the 19th and early 20th centuries led to huge improvements in health long before the advent of vaccines and antibiotics, and researchers have long known that sanitation plays a crucial role in child mortality and malnutrition. The sanitation campaign in India has been implemented from time to time by different Governments to address the challenge of poor sanitation. But these programmes focused mainly on the building of latrines—the main metric for showing progress towards sanitation targets. Hence the recently launched campaign “Swachh Bharat Mission” is India's biggest ever national level cleanliness drive post independence. The need of the hour is to promote the present sanitation campaign and make it a people’s movement.
