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Discuss the implications of ‘Swachha Bharat Abhiyan’. Do you think that civil society has a role to play here? Substantiate your answer with examples.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 20 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

Launched on 2 October 2014, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was presented as a campaign of toilets and behaviour change. Sociologically it is larger: because handling human waste in India is an ascribed, hereditary occupation, a sanitation mission is an intervention in caste.

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  • Sanitation as a caste question
  • Infrastructure achieved, behaviour contested
  • The coercive underside
  • Civil society's role
  • Conclusion

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