Lagatar24 Desk
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U)2.0 and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation(AMRUT) 2.0 at Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi.
The PM said on the occasion that the aim of Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 is to make the cities garbage-free. This mission is also an important step towards fulfilling the dreams of Babasaheb Ambedkar.
“In 2014, the countrymen took a pledge to make India open defecation free-ODF. The countrymen fulfilled this pledge with the construction of more than 10 crore toilets. Now, the goal of Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 is to make Garbage free city, a city completely free of garbage”, said PM.
‘Increasing sewage and septic management; making our cities water safe cities and ensuring that no sewage drains anywhere in our rivers’, is the country’s target in the next phase of Mission AMRUT. The journey of this mission is going to make every countryman proud, he further added.
In the second phase of the Swachh Bharat Mission, scientific management of waste from cities will be done within the next five years, so that there will be no chance of garbage formation outside the metros and cities. Similarly, in the second phase of Amrit, every house in all the cities will be connected to the tap. Apart from this, sewage water will be made clean. Under this mission, the supply of clean water to about 4700 local bodies will also be started. The biggest feature of this scheme is that it will help in reducing the mountains of garbage and garbage generated from the cities of the country.
