India’s Prospects for Attaining Sustainable Development Goals on Health & Sanitation: A Critical Analysis of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan & Jal Jeevan Mission

Abstract

scenario in India despite its stated considerable progress of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan- i.e. the mission on clean India, and Jal Jeevan Mission- i.e. the mission on provisioning safe drinking water. This suggests presence of pertinent challenges in the impact of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Jal Jeevan Mission as public policies on health and sanitation, in spite of their achievements such as, improvement in sanitation coverage from 38.70 percent in 2014 to 100 percent at present, and increase in household tap water coverage from 16.65 percent in 2019 to 65.61 percent at present. The present paper analyses India’s prospects of attaining sustainable development goals (SDGs) on health and sanitation, particularly through public programme intervention of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and Jal Jeevan Mission.  The research methodology followed is policy critique approach with secondary and quantitative research analysis. The findings indicate several challenges before these two programmes due to which India’s SDG targets on health and sanitation achievement might be delayed.