• Sanitation, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, SDGs, Open Defecation Free
• B.SUMATHI

Abstract: The Quality of Life of people attributed with well settled sanitation and hygiene ensure for social and economic development of society. Cleanliness is indispensable to our modern notion of social perfection, which is related to hygiene and diseases prevention. Sanitation in India has always been the central issue as cleanliness is the most important for physical wellbeing and a healthy environment. The values of cleanliness, therefore, have a social and cultural dimension beyond the requirements of hygiene for practical purposes. However, it continues to be inadequate despite of the longstanding efforts by the various levels of the government and communities to improve the coverage. The United Nations has made universal access to water and sanitation one of its main Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considering it essential for improved health, well-being and dignity. Sanitation such as personal hygiene, home sanitation, waste water disposal, garbage disposal and excreta disposal to improve the quality of life of people and the privacy and dignity of women. In 2014, Prime Minister of India launched a nation-wide campaign in the form of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan with the aim to achieve universal sanitation coverage and eradicate the practice of open defecation in India by 2019.to be completed on October 2, 2019 in general and to promote cleanliness and hygiene in a wholistic manner; This paper has its core objective as to analyse the performance of Swachh Bharat Mission in Tamil Nadu and however, the specific objectives are to analyse the region wise distribution of the coverage of SBM and its achievement; to bring out the financial allocations to SBM; to know the various specific schemes enunciated to reach total sanitation in the state and to suggest possible solutions to strengthen the SBM to improve further the quality of sanitation The present study has been based only on Secondary Data relating to the Region wise coverage of SBM, construction and renovation of Individual Household Toilets and Community Toilets, Government measures on sanitations, etc.., have been gathered from various official documents, Annual Reports of Water and Sanitation, Tamil Nadu-An Economic Appraisal, Hand Book of Statistics, selected web sites, etc. This paper concludes that since poor sanitation creates serious negative externalities, creating public health hazards and jeopardizing economic development for all, though Governments have a critical role to play as Sanitation is a public good in need of public funding that will allow everyone to benefit from improved health as well as social and economic development.

Sanitation, Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, SDGs, Open Defecation Free

"Inter-Regional Variations of Swachh Bharat Mission in Tamil Nadu: An Exploratory Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no.e398-e408, April-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204454.pdf

"Inter-Regional Variations of Swachh Bharat Mission in Tamil Nadu: An Exploratory Analysis", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 4, page no. ppe398-e408, April-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2204454.pdf