India's first nationwide rural sanitation program, launched in 1986 by the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with the stated aim of improving rural quality of life and providing privacy and dignity to women, initially focused narrowly on the treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage in villages. The Central Rural Sanitation Programme operated as a supply-driven, subsidy-based scheme that funded construction of individual sanitary latrines for households below the poverty line, before it broadened over time to cover liquid and solid waste disposal and personal, domestic and community hygiene more generally. In 1999, under the government of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the program was restructured into the demand-driven Total Sanitation Campaign, which shifted the emphasis from subsidizing construction toward generating community demand for sanitation.
Facts
Health GoalImprove the quality of life for rural people and provide privacy and dignity to rural women through sanitation 1 Measured ResultsRural sanitation coverage rose only marginally, about 9 percent, under CRSP own construction-led approach 1 Program status (class) Classification
Program KindSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Swachh Bharat Mission
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationOrigins section, CRSP launch sentence
This was followed by the launch of the Central Rural Sanitation Programme (CRSP) in 1986.
Origins section, CRSP goals sentence
The CRSP aimed to improve the quality of life for rural people and emphasized helping rural women with privacy and dignity.
Origins section, CRSP outcomes sentence
Sanitation increased marginally by 9%. These were construction-led and achieved very little.
Program classification, entity description sentence
India's first nationwide rural sanitation program, launched in 1986 by the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with the stated aim of improving rural quality of life and providing privacy and dignity to women, initially focused narrowly on the treatment and disposal of human excreta and sewage in villages.
2. PIB: Rural Sanitation in India
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