Current Affairs 6th January 2019

Current Affairs 6th January 2019 - Important Points

• Government launched nationwide cleanliness survey ‘Swachh Survekshan 2019’ on - 4th January 2019

Current Affairs 6th January 2019 - Details

Government launched nationwide cleanliness survey ‘Swachh Survekshan 2019’ on - 4th January 2019

Hardeep Singh Puri, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister launched the ‘Swachh Survekshan 2019’, the fourth edition of the annual nationwide cleanliness survey of urban India  on 4th January2019 in New Delhi. 

Launched as a part of the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’, the Swachh Survekshan 2019 is aiming to evaluate the achievements in the cleanliness level in country's urban areas. 

It will be encouraging large-scale citizen participation, ensure sustainability of initiatives taken towards garbage free and open defecation free cities, and will be providing credible outcomes.

Highlights of the survey 

• The survey will be covering 40 crore people in more than four thousand towns and cities.
•  Expected to be more than the previous cleanliness surveys, Swachh Survekshan 2019, completely digital and paperless survey, will complete  in a record time of 28 days only.
• For the first time ever, inspection will conduct without giving any fore information to the concerned official for real-time check and survey will going to be based on people’s feedback.
• An independent third party will be conducting this.

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission)

On 2nd October, 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission, India’s largest cleanliness drive, to achieve an Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2nd October, 2019, the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth .