Swachh Bharat Mission — toilets and waste management in towns and villages

• Financial assistance to eligible households to build an Individual Household Latrine (IHHL)
• Community and public toilets — construction, operation and maintenance — where individual toilets are not feasible
• Support for villages, wards and towns to become and stay Open Defecation Free (ODF)
• Door-to-door waste collection, source segregation, transport, processing and scientific disposal
• Liquid waste: greywater management, drainage, soak pits and decentralised treatment
• Safe collection, treatment and disposal of faecal sludge and septage in urban areas
• Awareness on toilet use, hygiene and waste segregation
• Plastic waste collection, recycling and reduction of single-use plastic
• Cleanliness drives and sanitation infrastructure
• Fewer sanitation-related diseases, and more dignity, privacy and safety — especially for women, children, elderly people and persons with disabilities

• Rural households without a safe household toilet
• Urban households without an individual toilet — especially economically weaker and low-income households with ownership, legal possession or a recognised occupancy right over the land
• Households in areas that need community toilets because of space or land constraints
• Gram Panchayats, villages, blocks and districts needing sanitation and waste management infrastructure
• Urban local bodies, wards and cities needing public and community toilets, solid waste and faecal sludge management
• Schools, anganwadi centres and public places, as per scheme norms
• Vulnerable groups — women-headed households, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, persons with disabilities, elderly people and economically weaker households

Where to go:

• In villages: Gram Panchayat office, Block Development Office, District Water and Sanitation Mission
• In towns: municipality or municipal corporation, ward or borough office
• Common Service Centre, where applicable

Process:

• Contact the Gram Panchayat, urban local body, ward office or SBM implementation office
• The local authority verifies your household's sanitation status
• If eligible, you are registered under the relevant SBM component
• You may need to submit identity and address proof, bank account details, a photograph and proof of the need for a toilet
• After verification, the authority gives approval
• Depending on the component, the toilet is built by the beneficiary, the local body, an implementing agency or an approved contractor
• After completion there may be field verification or geo-tagging
• Financial assistance, where applicable, is released through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) or as per the state or local body's process
• Community and public toilets and waste management projects are prepared and implemented by urban local bodies or Gram Panchayats