# Swachh Bharat Mission is launched

Date: 2014

## The fact

On 2 October 2014 Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](/people/narendra-modi) launched the Swachh Bharat Mission, a national sanitation campaign aiming to end open defecation and expand household toilets.

## Context

The Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry (later Jal Shakti) implemented. States built toilets. Usage and water supply lagged in independent studies. He owned the mission. He did not sit as every mason.

Jal Jeevan in 2019 is a neighbouring later water-supply mission. Toilet-construction statistics are neighbouring later administrative series.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Prime Minister’s Office of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is health-system-adjacent sanitation: a completed national toilet mission is a dated public-health access instrument, with usage still contested.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2 October 2014 launch of Swachh Bharat as a national sanitation mission.

Not established: that every later ODF declaration matched independent usage surveys, or a unique later child-stunting coefficient from launch day.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

States and the sanitation ministry implemented. Households still have to use toilets.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Swachh Bharat Mission is launched, not a later speech about Swachh Bharat Mission is launched.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Swachh Bharat Mission is launched on 2014-10-02 is not a licence to treat every later Prime Minister’s Office of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Swachh Bharat Mission is launched into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He launched the mission. States and the sanitation ministry implemented. Households still have to use toilets. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-modi-sanitation-idUSKCN0HR1V820141002
- https://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-launches-swachh-bharat-mission/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-swachh-bharat-2014