<Tr> <Th> Status </Th> <Td> Passive </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> swachhbharat.mygov.in </Td> </Tr> <P> Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) (or Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) or Clean India Mission in English) is a campaign in India that aims to clean up the streets, roads and infrastructure of India's cities, smaller towns, and rural areas . The objectives of Swachh Bharat include eliminating open defecation through the construction of household - owned and community - owned toilets and establishing an accountable mechanism of monitoring toilet use . Run by the Government of India, the mission aims to achieve an Open - Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2 October 2019, the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing 12 million toilets in rural India at a projected cost of ₹ 1.96 lakh crore (US $30 billion). </P> <P> The campaign was officially launched on 2 October 2014 at Rajghat, New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi . It is India's largest cleanliness drive to date with 3 million government employees, school students, and college students from all parts of India participating in 4,041 statutory cities, towns and associated rural areas . </P>

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