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Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan was a programme independence, due attention was paid to
following the principles of Community-Led Total vocational courses in science and technology.
Sanitation (CLTS) initiated by government of India This effort has bore fruit as India boosts of the
in 1999 and from 1999 to 2012 called Total world’s largest workforce in science and
Sanitation Campaign. The main goal of TSC was technology at present.
to eradicate the practice of open defecation by
2017. CLTS was not focused on building Activity
infrastructure, but on changing cultural norms to Make a report to show what efforts are made by the
prevent open defecation free status received government to upgrade education in the country.
monetary rewards and high publicity under a Industry
program called Nirmal Gram Puraskar.
At the time of independence, hardly any industries
On 2nd October 2014 the Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan existed in India, so adequate attention was paid to
campaign was relaunched as Swachh Bharat the development of basic industries, such as iron and
Abhiyan. steel, cement, machine tools, fertilisers, etc. At
SULABH, a non government orgnisation have present, India has a large number of industries in
been working for the last three or four decades to diverse fields and competes with the best of the
address the problems of sanitation being faced by industrial nations. At present, India is at the threshold
low castes and low income groups in India. It has of becoming an industrially developed country.
built more than 7500 public toilet blocks and
more than one million private toilets, giving
access to sanitation to about ten million people in
the country. The majority of the people who use
them are from the poor classes. The government
has partnered Sulabh in many of its efforts,
providing land and funds for setting up toilet
The Dabur Limited A villager making baskets
complexes in slums, markets and so on.
Quiz Time
Agriculture
Fill in the blanks :
Food, being the primary need, requires adequate
attention to be paid to agriculture. This need 1. The __________ motive of the private sector is
becomes all the more pronounced when the to make profits.
population is increasing continuously. The White 2. There are many agriculture _________ in India.
Revolution and the Green Revolution were started 3. __________ is a primary area because the
in India in order to give impetus to agricultural human resource development depends on this.
production and livestock. At present, there are
many agriculture universities in India which 4. India is at the threshold of becoming an
educate and train a large number of agricultural __________ developed country.
scientists who can contribute in the methods of
Generation of Employment
increasing food production and better
management of cattle. A large number of people are unemployed in the
rural areas. Also, a large part of the rural
Education
workforce remains without work when it is not
Education is a primary area because the human busy in agriculture. Therefore, the government has
resource development depends on this. Before started various programmes from time to time to
independence, the British were interested in only generate rural employment, so that the workforce
producing clerks, so all attention was paid on does not migrate to urban areas and contributes to
theoretical subjects. However, after the development of the rural areas. One such
Economic Presence of the Government
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