SUJALAM Campaign

The disposal of waste water and clogging of waterbodies in the villages or on the outskirts of the villages remain one of the major problems.
The Jal Shakti Ministry has launched “SUJALAM”, a 100 days campaign as a part of the ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations to create more and more ODF Plus villages by undertaking waste water management at village level particularly through creation of 1 million Soak-pits and also other Grey water management activities.
The effort of the campaign would be directed towards achieving the ODF plus status for villages across the country in an accelerated manner in a short time.
The campaign will not only build desired infrastructure but will also aid in sustainable management of water bodies.
It would boost the momentum of Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin phase II activities through community participation and it will increase awareness about ODF-plus activities.

SUJALAM

- Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), launched on 2nd October 2014, is a massive mass movement that seeks to create a Clean India by October 2, 2019 (150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi).

SBM Urban aims for the elimination of open defecation, conversion of unsanitary toilets to pour flush toilets, eradication of manual scavenging, municipal solid waste management and bringing about a behavioural change in people regarding healthy sanitation practices.
SBM Rural (Phase I) aims to make India an open defecation free country. It seeks to improve the levels of cleanliness in rural areas through Solid and Liquid Waste Management activities and making Gram Panchayats Open Defecation Free (ODF), clean and sanitised.

The urban component of the mission is implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, and the rural component by the Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti.

In 2020, the Union Cabinet approved the Phase II of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) till 2024-25
It will focus on Open Defecation Free Plus (ODF Plus), which includes ODF sustainability and Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM). The program will also work towards ensuring that no one is left behind and everyone uses a toilet.

The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched the ODF+ and ODF++ programmes towards sustaining and maintaining the toilets built under SBM Urban.
It aims to further scale up and sustain the work undertaken by the cities after achieving the ODF status under Phase I of the SBM-Urban.
Cities that have been certified ODF at least once, on the basis of the ODF protocols, are eligible to declare themselves as SBM-ODF & SBM-ODF++.
- While ODF+ focuses on toilets with water, maintenance and hygiene, ODF++ focuses on toilets with sludge and septage management.

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