Challenges And Opportunities In Linking Sanitation Campaigns With Sustainable Development: A Policy Review Of Swachh Bharat In Indore

Abstract

It had already read how the idea of Sustainable Development had been paired with Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) in the Madhya Pradesh city of Indore, which had been known all along as the cleanest city in India. It had achieved it in the form of mixed-methods research design that consisted of the quantitative survey and qualitative interviews and field researches. The study had uncovered that citizen awareness and participation had also helped in achieving sanitation in the city. Waste segregation and recycling practices had become the municipal innovations highly oriented on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) throughout the world with respect to the goals connected with the sanitation system, responsible urbanized living and accountable consumption. Even with these successes, there were still other issues such as behavioral resistance, infrastructural deficiencies, lack of finances, and bad welfare of sanitation workers. The paper had reported that though the SBA implementation had been a model of a sustainable urban management in Indore, its long term successes in issues of inclusiveness, financial stability and labour would have been imperative in a bid to ensure the sustainability of the implementation.