Schemes in Budget 2021 / Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget Speech for 2021-22, announced Urban Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0 with a total financial allocation of Rs 1,41,678 crore over a period of five years from 2021-2026.

It will focus on:

• Complete faecal sludge management.

• Wastewater treatment.

• Source segregation of garbage.

• Reduction in single-use plastic.

• Reduction in air pollution by effectively managing waste from construction-and-demolition activities.

• Bioremediation of all legacy dump sites.

Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban)

• The government launched Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) on October 2, 2014.

The Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) has two primary components of implementation:

1) Achieving 100 per cent open defecation-free (ODF) status.

2) 100 per cent scientific processing of solid waste.

• Since its launch in 2014, Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) has made significant progress in the area of both sanitation and solid waste management. 

• As many as 4,360 cities have been declared ODF, 1,742 cities certified ODF+ and 538 cities certified ODF++ as per the ministry of housing and urban affairs sanitation protocols. 

• This has been made possible through construction of more than 62 lakh individual household toilets and over 6 lakh community/public toilets, far exceeding the Mission’s targets.

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