1) Beti Bachao Beti Phadao (BBBP)

About the scheme, objectives and target group

To address the issue of declining CSR, GoI has launched Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme. The scheme was launched by Honorable Prime Minister on 22^ndJanuary 2015 at Haryana. By undertaking mass campaign across the nation, focussed intervention and multi-sectoral action in the first phase the scheme has been started in 100 districts where the CSR has been critical. On 2^nd January 2016, the Government decided to extend the scheme in another 61 districts.

With the goal of celebrating girl child and enabling her education, the scheme has following objectives:

Prevent gender biased sex selective elimination Ensure survival and protection of the girl child

Ensure education for and participation of the girl child

Beneficiary:

Girl child

Benefits:

1) Bringing girl child rights into focus.

2) Achieving girl child access to education

2) Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)

About

The Government of India (GOI) launched the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) [SBM (U)], with the vision of ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation, as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150^th birth anniversary, to be celebrated in the year 2019. SBM (Urban) is being implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MHUA).

Key thrust areas of the mission include,

• Elimination of open defecation
• Eradication of Manual Scavenging by converting insanitary toilets to sanitary
• Modern and Scientific Municipal Solid Waste Management
• Effecting behavioural change regarding healthy sanitation practices
• Awareness generation about sanitation and its linkage with public health
• Capacity Augmentation for Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) to create an enabling environment for private sector participation

The mission also focuses on improving the levels of cleanliness through Solid Waste Management activities.

The mission targets coverage of all statutory towns.

It is important to note that the Open Defecation Free (ODF) city/ward is the ultimate outcome envisaged under SBM (U). A city / ward can be notified/ declared as ODF city/ ODF ward if, at any point of the day, not a single person is found defecating in the open.

ODF is the termination of faecal-oral transmission, defined by

• No visible faeces found in the environment/surroundings; and
• Every household as well as public/community institutions are using Safe option for disposal of faeces.

Beneficiary:

Everyone

Benefits:

Open Defecation Free (ODF) city/ward