Even as India celebrates the Swachh Bharat Mission’s incredible toilet-coverage success, our rivers are prone to inadequate sewage coverage and waste processing. Elucidate (200 Words)
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Darshan 5 years
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KEY POINTS
Swachh Bharat mission, a successful initiative
· The National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS) 2018-19, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA) under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen (SBM-G), has found that 96.5% of the households in rural India who have access to a toilet use it.
· The NARSS also re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status of 90.7% of villages which were previously declared and verified as ODF by various districts/States.
· But, a study by researchers from Banaras Hindu University showed high levels of antibiotic contamination of the Ganga.
· In a country that faces a high anti-microbial resistance (AMR) risk because of rampant antibiotic abuse, such contamination points at systemic deficiencies in treating waste-water and solid waste, thereby, revealing a failure of sanitation and waste disposal policies.
· In the case of the Ganga, for instance, faecal bacteria levels were found to be above the acceptable cap at 48 out of 61 monitoring stations—this, after the government claimed that 4,465 villages along the Ganga were now open-defecation free.
· Also, an estimated 11,729 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste is generated by the 97 towns along the river.
· Hyderabad’s pharmaceutical cluster now show that the large doses of man-made antibiotics in pollution hotspots like Kazipally force these environmental bacteria to evolve by boosting the numbers of resistance genes.
· The entire Patancheru region home to drug, pesticide and paint makers is considered one of the most toxic environments in the world.
· So the SBM needs to expand its goals to minize the effect of AMR in the future.
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Ruthesh kumar 6 years
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