The Union Budget 2018-19 has promised to construct two crore toilets under Swachchh Bharat Mission amid subdued economic growth. According to the statistics over six crore toilets were built under Swachchh Bharat Mission in 4 years of tenure of the Central Government. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the fifth Union Budget proposed to construct 2 crore toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission amid subdued economic growth.
The Union Budget for 2018-2019 is important for the upcoming elections in eight states this year and the lok Sabha elections next year.
Swachchh Bharat Abhiyan one of the flagship programmes of the government that aims to bring about a change in the sanitation programmes in the country. Soon after the Narendra Modi assumed the charge, he announced that India would become open defection free nation by 2019.
Over the last four years a considerable hike in budget outlay was seen for the rural areas under this programme. 260 districts and over 300,000 villages have been declared Open Defecation free according to the SBM rural portal.