71% in survey say Swachh Bharat a flop in cities

[JanjaWeed]

sounds like those 71% failed to get the message. Maybe they were expecting someone else to come & clean it for them! Oh well..at least it made a difference for 29%. Better than nothing at all...

 

[danish_vij]

sounds like those 71% failed to get the message. Maybe they were expecting someone else to come & clean it for them! Oh well..at least it made a difference for 29%. Better than nothing at all...

exactly....when swacch bharat was launched i had a little expectation fro muncipal corp of my city.......though they tried to improve(clearing few dumping grounds and a few new vehicles for waste management)....

but to a larger extend i was expecting a lot from general public........and it happened now just giving my life's example......my college took it seriously(or they were instructed to do so)...now we have dustbins all around campus say after about 100 m
and swacch bharat written on it.........and this further ignited young minds in college to why not get too a dustbin and throw a wrapper or anything.......and the campus crowd even sometimes interrupts anyone throwing anything on ground(whether a friend or not)...so to me i dnt know what swacch bharat was planned to b but i think phase 1 of swacch bharat is successful(that starts from general education)

this is just 1 example from 1 part of my life

 

[Great Sachin]

in other way....29% think it is sucsses...... that a great number in such a short time

 

[JanjaWeed]

exactly....when swacch bharat was launched i had a little expectation fro muncipal corp of my city.......though they tried to improve(clearing few dumping grounds and a few new vehicles for waste management)....

but to a larger extend i was expecting a lot from general public........and it happened now just giving my life's example......my college took it seriously(or they were instructed to do so)...now we have dustbins all around campus say after about 100 m
and swacch bharat written on it.........and this further ignited young minds in college to why not get too a dustbin and trough a wrapper or anything.......and the campus crowd even sometimes interrupts anyone throwing anything on ground(whether a friend or not)...so to me i dnt know what swacch bharat was planned to b but i think phase 1 of swacch bharat is successful(that starts from general education)

this is just 1 example from 1 part of my life

Precisely! Whole concept of swachh Bharat is to create awareness about cleanliness. If people fail to grasp that message...it's bad for them actually!

 

[danish_vij]

Precisely! Whole concept of swachh Bharat is to create awareness about cleanliness. If people fail to grasp that message...it's bad for them actually!

actually people expect everything to happen on its own.....they forget that we r not cleaning our room..
as the voting goes 29% feel the change so phase ones completed 29% of the work....we will achieve the goal of 80% atleast
& the one who doesnt feel the change should ask themselves whether they are doing their job? have they thrown their last empty water bottle where it was supposed to b thrown

 

[Prajapati]

Swachh bharat is not about the govt. cleaning up the mess.

Its about CITIZEN stop creating the mess and cleaning up when they Do create the mess.

Its a mission and not a project to "fail".

 

[The_Showstopper]

So there is a reason for you to cheer.

This means that 29 feels that swachha bharat has made some impact. Very good begining.

29% Chalo something Sanghis can cheer up on... but wait the OP nowhere states that 29% agree that it had an impact...

 

[dadeechi]

If Modi ji gifted every Indian a Bhagwad Gita for picking up 100 trash pieces, the Swacch Bharat would definently work. Modi ji and his cabinet need to immediately get working on this plan as it would enlighten the young Vedic minds of India, and also clean India completely.

Do you think an average citizen in India cares about Gita? If it was true, today's India would have been very different.

71% in survey say Swachh Bharat a flop in cities

PM Narendra Modi launched the mission on October 2, 2014.

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NEW DELHI: In what could be a wake-up call for the Centre to fix weaknesses in the Swachh Bharat initiative, nearly 71% respondents in an online poll conducted by a social media group feel cleanliness in their cities and towns has not improved much in the past one year and want a greater municipal-citizen connect.

The online poll on "localcircles", which has over 3 lakh participants, provides a strong feedback that municipalities need a big technology and skill upgrade and need to improve actual delivery of sanitation services at the ground level. Involving citizens in the cleanliness drives as well as in advocacy will also help, the poll indicates.

Swachh Bharat mission was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 2 last year.

The poll has brought to light the big gap in capacity of municipal bodies, which are primarily responsible for collection, transportation and treatment of both solid and liquid waste in urban areas.

According to the poll, 94% respondents felt municipal bodies need a major upgrade in skills, processes, equipment system and leadership as well. Some 96% felt municipal and city leaders should connect with citizens for the success of Swachh Bharat mission.

A senior government official said the findings of such surveys will help in planning the next course of action. "Efforts are being made to sensitize the municipal authorities and we have been monitoring the progress. It's a time taking programme. We are providing technical and financial assistance to urban local bodies to implement the scheme," the official added.

According to latest government data, 1.42 lakh tonnes of solid waste was generated per day in urban areas in July and only 15.33% of it was processed, indicating how under-equipped municipal bodies are to handle the mammoth task. They also face a problem in terms of lack of a dedicated municipal cadre that can bring qualified economists, public policy graduates, environmentalists and engineers into city administrations.

While one of the key components of the mission in urban areas to create more public toilet facilities, over three-fourth of respondents in the online poll said the availability of toilets has not increased in the one year. More than 70% of the respondents also pointed out how local municipalities are not seriously engaged in the scheme and driving the "cleanliness/ civic sense" initiatives on the ground.

Considering that cities are competing with each other to get the Smart City tag, 88% of the respondents said that municipal bodies that implement Swachh Bharat mission effectively should be considered as the key parameter for this scheme.


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Even an analysis of the cities and towns that have been shortlisted for three major urban development scheme — Smart City, Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation and Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana — shows how the common underlying concern is ensuring sanitation under all these programmes. Most of the urban areas have poor ranking so far their Swachh Bharat rankings are concerned.

The urban component of Swachh Bharat Mission includes construction of 1.04 crore individual household toilets, over five lakh community and public toilet seats and 100% door-to-door collection of solid waste and its transportation and disposal.

71% in survey say Swachh Bharat a flop in cities - The Times of India

Well BJP got 31% votes in the last elections. This means they have dropped by 2% since then.

 

[The_Showstopper]

Well BJP got 31% votes in the last elections. This means they have dropped by 2% since then.

If what you say is true then bad news for BJP. And the OP never stated that 29% believe that there was an impact.

Anyways what impact are we speaking of, we already have schools, NGOs, parents and the prev governments educating the importance of cleanliness, an effort should have been made in providing better tools to drive this cleanliness. More bins were required to be installed and similar steps were the need of hour as the article states below.

"According to the poll, 94% respondents felt municipal bodies need a major upgrade in skills, processes, equipment system and leadership as well."

But what did the government end up doing - Well a few Photo-Op sessions...

 

[dadeechi]

If what you say is true then bad news for BJP. And the OP never stated that 29% believe that there was an impact.

Anyways what impact are we speaking of, we already have schools, NGOs, parents and the prev governments educating the importance of cleanliness, an effort should have been made in providing better tools to drive this cleanliness. More bins were required to be installed and similar steps were the need of hour as the article states below.

"According to the poll, 94% respondents felt municipal bodies need a major upgrade in skills, processes, equipment system and leadership as well."

But what did the government end up doing - Well a few Photo-Op sessions...

I frankly do not know what is the situation on the ground but I will say that any polls in India should be taken with a bucket of salt. Leave about opinion polls even exist polls have miserably failed.

Swachh bharat is not about the govt. cleaning up the mess.

Its about CITIZEN stop creating the mess and cleaning up when they Do create the mess.

Its a mission and not a project to "fail".

Completely agree. It's the primary responsibility of each every citizen.

 

[The_Showstopper]

I frankly do not know what is the situation on the ground but I will say that any polls in India should be taken with a bucket of salt. Leave about opinion polls even exist polls have miserably failed.

It's not just about polls but money invested on marketing this campaign. The same money could have been used to upgrade the skills of those cleaning our cities/towns on a daily basis but that did not happen...

 

[dadeechi]

It's not just about polls but money invested on marketing this campaign. The same money could have been used to upgrade the skills of those cleaning our cities/towns on a daily basis but that did not happen...

The problem is not with the people responsible for cleaning or their lack of skills but with the people who create the problem in the first place.

Only in India you would you find a clean dumpster and trash all around it.

 

[Abingdonboy]

29% agree is a huge thing for country like india in just 1.5 year ...

I actually agree, initially I was, as the headline is clearly trying to provoke, quite disconcerted by this news. But 29% of people (almost 1/3) are saying that they have seen a discernible improvement in their towns/cities in a very short span of time (Swacth Bharat only came into existence around a year ago). This is some pretty remarkable work really.


Of course there is SO MUCH more to be done but this article presents an overly pessimistic picture.

 

[The_Showstopper]

The problem is not with the people responsible for cleaning or their lack of skills but with the people who create the problem in the first place.

Only in India you would you find a clean dumpster and trash all around it.

The reason being there's no proper bin cans placed in the vicinity. Can you claim that majority of the people even after having dust bins nearby still litter the place...? There are many places in my city itself where there is no proper municipality garbage collection. People either hire private individual in a colony to do the job or just dump them at a nearby desolated place... And it's up to the animals to do the scavenging part...

 

[dadeechi]

The reason being there's no proper bin cans placed in the vicinity. Can you claim that majority of the people even after having dust bins nearby still litter the place...? There are many places in my city itself where there is no proper municipality garbage collection. People either hire private individual in a colony to do the job or just dump them at a nearby desolated place... And it's up to the animals to do the scavenging part...

I agree that there may not be trash bins in some areas but I am talking about the habits of the people who have trash bins but still do not use it. This is how it goes

1) Trash bin is too far away from their home. BTW no one wants the trash bin in front of their home too.
2) People do not want to go near the trash bin as it's dirty & stinky hence they throw the trash from a few feet away. Their skills are not so good so the result is trash all around. The next person in line will throw the trash from even farther distance to avoid the trash that's already present around the trash bin thereby creating a wider circle.

and this goes on and on and on

The trash pickup person picks up the trash from the bin which is almost empty. No one bothers about the trash all around.