<P> Officially starting as of 1 April 1999, The Government of India restructured the Comprehensive Rural Sanitation Programme and launched the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) which was later (on 1 April 2012) renamed "Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan", or NBA (Hindi: निर्मल भारत अभियान, Nirmal Bhārat Abhiyān) by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . It was a programme following - to some extent - the principles of community - led total sanitation (CLTS). Villages that achieved this status received monetary rewards and high publicity under a program called Nirmal Gram Puraskar . </P> <P> Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was restructured by Cabinet approval on 24 September 2014 as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan . </P> <P> Major activities covered under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan were: </P> <Ul> <Li> Construction of individual household latrines for which the enhanced incentive for individual household latrine units has been extended to all Below Poverty Line (BPL) Households and Above Poverty Line Households (APL) restricted to SCs / STs, small and marginal farmers, landless labourers with homestead, physically handicapped and women headed households . </Li> <Li> Convergence with Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme for additional financial assistance. Provision of sanitation facilities in Government Schools and Anganwadis in Government buildings . </Li> <Li> Assistance to Production Centres of sanitary materials and Rural Sanitary Marts, Provision of construction of Community Sanitary Complexes . </Li> <Li> Solid and Liquid Waste management (SLWM) to be taken up in project mode for each Gram Panchayat (GP) with financial assistance capped for a GP on the basis of number of household to enable all Panchayats to implement sustainable SLWM projects . </Li> <Li> Information Education Communication (IEC) activities for sustainable demand generation for sanitation facility . </Li> <Li> Provision of extensive capacity building of the stake holders like Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs), Village Water and Sanitation Committees (VWSCs) and field functionaries for sustainable sanitation . </Li> </Ul>

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