Sujalam Campaign

Subject – Governance

Concept –

SUJALAM Campaign is a 100 days campaign launched as a part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations.
This campaign seeks to create more ODF Plus villages by undertaking waste water management across villages in India.
During the campaign, ten lakh Soak-pits will be created.
The Jal Shakti Ministry has launched a campaign to create a million soak pits in villages across the country over the next 100 days, to help manage grey water and prevent the clogging of waterbodies.
The Swachh Bharat Mission’s first phase was to achieve open defecation free (ODF) status by constructing a toilet in every rural household and persuading all villagers to use it.
- The second phase, termed ODF+, aims to sustain and extend these sanitation gains by focusing on solid and liquid waste management.
- Second phase has required a more nuanced approach.
A dashboard would be made public within the next two weeks to enable proper monitoring of ODF+ work.