SWACHH BHARAT MISSION-URBAN 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0)

Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0), has launched the ‘National Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) Framework for Garbage Free Cities’ to strengthen the ongoing jan andolan for ‘Garbage Free Cities’.

National Behaviour Change Communication Framework

• The BCC Framework for Garbage Free Cities shall serve as a guiding document and blueprint for States and Cities to undertake large scale multimedia campaigns along with intensive and focused inter-personal communication campaigns.
• The framework focuses on intensifying messaging around the key focus areas of source segregation, collection, transportation, and processing of waste, plastic waste management, and remediation of legacy dumpsites to transform the urban landscape of India.

SBM-U 2.0

• SBM-U 2.0, announced in Budget 2021-22, is the continuation of SBM-U first phase.
• It was launched on 1st October 2021 to achieve the vision of ‘Garbage Free Cities’ over the next five years.
• The government is also trying to tap safe containment, transportation, disposal of faecal sludge, and septage from toilets.
• It will be implemented over five years from 2021 to 2026 with an outlay of Rs.1.41 lakh crore.
• SBM-U first phase was launched on 2nd October 2014 aiming at making urban India Open Defecation Free (ODF) and achieving 100% scientific management of municipal solid waste. It lasted till October 2019.

Aim:

• It focuses on source segregation of garbage, reduction in single-use plastic and air pollution, by effectively managing waste from construction and demolition activities and bioremediation of all legacy dump sites.
• Under this mission, all wastewater will be treated properly before it is discharged into water bodies, and the government is trying to make maximum reuse a priority.

SOURCE: THE HINDU,THE ECONOMIC TIMES,MINT