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SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 43

SSC CGL - 18 April 2022 - Shift 1 • General Awareness • Q43

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The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) was launched in the year ______ to fulfil the vision of cleaner India as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi.
 

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Correct answer: C

Explanation

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. 2014.

  • To accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put the focus on sanitation, the Prime Minister of India had launched the Swachh Bharat Mission on 2nd October 2014.
  • Under the mission, all villages, Gram Panchayats, Districts, States and Union Territories in India declared themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF) by 2 October 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, by constructing over 100 million toilets in rural India.
  • The mission aims to make India an open defecation free country in Five Years. Under the mission, One lakh thirty four thousand crore rupees will be spent for construction of about 11 crore 11 lakh toilets in the country.