 This is Kalyani. Like most girls her age, Kalyani has many dreams. But this is not just her story. This is the story of thousands of Kalyanis across India, who can now lead healthy lives. As the wheels of time turn, India is witnessing an unprecedented revolution inspired by the man who believed that sanitation is more important than political independence. In the first two decades of the 21st century, there was little that modern humans did not have at their fingertips. Yet more than two billion people lacked access to safe sanitation across the world. Open defecation perpetuates a vicious cycle of disease and poverty and diarrhea caused by poor sanitation is one of the leading causes of child mortality. Under the age of five. India, home to a sixth of the world's population, a burgeoning middle class and the world's fastest growing cities. In 2014, on one hand, India was amongst the top 10 economies in the world. And yet on the other hand, more than half the country was grappling with the basic issue of sanitation. In India, people had been practicing open defecation for centuries and apart from the indignity and in many cases the security and dignity of women and girls in particular, it was also a major health hazard. Open defecation was leading to chronic cases of diarrhea, dysentery and mortality. And even if you looked at it from a global perspective, India was contributing over 60% of the world's open defecators. So how do you get them to change their behavior and also change their mindset about the then stigma of having a toilet inside your house? You know, some people thought that was impure. And now in a few moments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will present the country. Do our mothers and sisters face any challenges? We can at least not face any sort of problem. The most important thing is cleanliness and cleanliness. Should we decide that in 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be elected, our village, our city, our streets, our neighborhood, all areas will not be marked as dirty. No one had ever imagined this in India or the world. No one had ever imagined this in India or the world. The Prime Minister of a big country like India, who has only 49% of cleanliness in the country, will stand on the brink of red light and declare the country. And with this determination, he will declare that we will only reach 5 years of cleanliness. The Swachh Bharat or Clean India Mission, the world's largest sanitation drive, was launched with the purpose of encouraging. Millions across India to embrace a cleaner, healthier lifestyle. Sanitation has been on the table for the last 20 years in various forms and shapes. It's new government comes, the name changes, but it was always there. One is, I think, the clarity of purpose at the very top helps a lot. I think the Prime Minister of a country prioritizes something as his or her priority. So I think that was a strategic shift. But how do you change the behavior of over 550 million people, especially in the rural hinterland of India? With nearly 600,000 villages spread over almost 700 districts, the sheer scale of this challenge was enormous. One of the first challenges which I faced was in getting our own team in the ministry to believe that this was possible. So we needed a bit of disruption in the beginning within our own ministry. And then we operated what we call our time-worn formula of PM, CM, DM, VM. So the Prime Minister, Chief Minister, the District Magistrate, and the Village Motivator, once you get them all on board and you make it a mass movement, it makes a huge difference. Any successful mission on a scale as large as the Swachh Bharat Mission essentially has to have the participation of the community. And they were the people who took the message forward to every single household. When we started on the ground, we appointed a few women, active women, whom we call Swachh Agrivi. But apart from them, we needed more people on board. So every department has got grassroot level functionaries of at least 15 different departments. All these people were brought on board and the Swachh Agrivis were used to train these people in such a manner that every single household is covered and all the toilets are constructed, they are used and also maintained. We had been involved in the process of triggering the bullets of the gun so that the people in our talks could be affected by the heart and brain so that they could be prepared to make the toilets. We were first made toilets on their brains and then on the ground. It became very clear that we needed to make our 600,000 bullets We needed to make our 600,000 villages ODF. Now this term opened defecation free. What it actually meant was that all the households in a village needed to have access to toilets. We wanted to talk about the nature of the village. So we decided to go out to the mountains and to the mountains. We wanted to talk about the nature of the village. When we asked the villagers to tell us about the nature of the village, they made the village. Then we asked them where they had gone in the morning. You said you go to the mountains. So where did you go today? You all go to the mountains? They started adding the yellow powder. The village was filled with dirt. Then we asked them again how they could see the village. Then they realized that they could see the village. How do you see the village now? We put rice on one side, cooked. We put dirt on the other side. We show them how they can sit on the same floor and put the rice on the rice. Then they can go back to the dirt and the dirt. And the same food you put on the rice makes the food taste better. So it becomes a situation there that people stop eating for 2-3 days. When we go to the mountains, the people come to see the village. When we go to the mountains, they tell us about our problems. They tell us about our problems. Our village, our pride. Our village is clean. Our pride. So we put the rice on the rice. In less than 2 years since the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, villagers began demanding and building toilets. But began as a spark, was now spreading like wildfire across the country. My name is Kumari Kalyani. I am 18 years old. We live in the 36th district of Tarigram. I am very proud of my mother because she finished my father when he was 9 years old. She has been taking care of us since then. When we didn't have a toilet at home, we used to be very worried. When we used to go out in our childhood, we used to throw things in the river or throw things in the river. We used to get hurt. Five years ago, we had heard that we had to build toilets in everyone's house. We didn't want people to go out. Everyone was building toilets in our neighborhood. But we couldn't build because of the poor condition in our house. We didn't build all the toilets in our neighborhood. My younger sister used to bring cement and electricity and I used to go to the streets. After building toilets, my life has improved a lot. My friends and I are still fine because they have built toilets in their homes and they also use them. They also spend their time and they come to school on time and attend school. They also study well. My sister-in-law built toilets in everyone's house. But still, no one was building toilets in our neighborhood. All of us kids used to think that our village is not an ODF. We didn't have a toilet in our neighborhood. So we built a toilet in our neighborhood. We used to go to the toilet secretly and follow them. They used to sit in our neighborhood and run away. They would even abuse us. But we used to go to the toilet. We used to build toilets in our neighborhood. We used to tell them that if they go outside, they will abuse us. If they go inside, they will abuse us. We are kids. If we want to build our village in a beautiful and healthy way, then we can build it in a big way. 150,000 children in one state wrote letters to their parents and their school teachers and their community leaders telling them what they expected of them to be part of Swachh Bharat. We estimate that more than 300 million children around India now have access to safe sanitation. That's a huge number. The clean India mission captured the imagination of the country. And rapidness swelled into a mass movement that by none other than the people of India. More than 2.5 lakh people were born. More than 6.5 lakh clean workers worked in the villages to make this solution successful. And above all, this solution of cleanliness is making it more accessible. In the villages, the people worked so hard that women, children, and all of them helped to make this solution successful. When we saw how our children changed, then all of us, women, and all of us, we thought, how do we get rid of waste? All of us. When we went to a school in Nigrani, we were caught by the police. We were told that we were hungry, so we walked towards the police, moving forward in the forest. When we saw the clean India, our family was clean. And our village was clean. We had to go to the grandfather's house. My parents went through a lot. My father had to take me to the grandfather's house. When I was studying, my father had to get a baby. My sister married at a young age. I got married at 16. The SPM scheme, the church barred machine, gave us a training in Kalyatayat. When I was in open-device, a lot of children came, and a lot of patients came. I had a lot of bombs in this town. They told me to build a toilet, but I couldn't build it. When I told them about it, they came to me with a lot of expectations. I told them to build a toilet, and they told me to build it. If you build it, the government will punish you. It will cost you 12,000 rupees. The interest in building the toilet began. At first, only 50 people built the toilet. From here to there, we built a toilet for 300 people in a month. My father was a doctor. We didn't study. My father was a doctor, and I couldn't do anything about it. I was in this community, and I could save a lot of patients, and save a lot of children. I couldn't build that happiness in my mid-job. So, I did this job. The message became a mission. And the mission became a movement. It became a jnanandola. And there were others who spent out of their own pockets. Because in anticipation of funds, this movement from continued. Then village after village became open defecation free. The first state to become Odea per second. So, after second, the question was which state next? Within the district, the villages were competing with each other, the panchayats were competing, and we had all kinds of competitions. There was a push also. So, can states compete with each other in terms of achieving this? If you go to the remotest location in the country, compared to many other government projects, your toilet has been constructed. Which is quite a unique achievement. Once every household had access to a toilet, village after village began proudly declaring themselves as open defecation free. To celebrate the occasion, walks of pride, or gauravyatra, were taken out across the country. As million embraced a cleaner and healthier way of life. Women too can be seen in this cloth. I took the laundry, and made it into cloth. The first time I came to my house, there was no food at all. From the birth of India, sisters and daughters are getting free from insults and old age. This is a great opportunity for the workers. This marriage has most affected the women and women. Because the training has been done, she has been using her experience, her knowledge, and her skills to build a house. Because of the construction of this house, people are happy. The income and family are very similar. We see women have now come into the role of Rani Mysteries. So where sanitation construction was very much a male dominated area. Now we have women who have learned the skill and who are earning it. So throughout India now we estimate there are about 50,000 Rani Mysteries. Which is amazing. The movement was further fueled by campaigns across mass media. Especially those led by celebrities who inspired and influenced millions to use toilets. From over 550 million people to becoming open defecation in 2014 to becoming open defecation free in five years. The Swachh Bharat mission success in India is being hailed as nothing short of a miracle. In India, the people of India have declared themselves free and open. From Swetha, from Swapnada and from Janbhagidari there is power and success. I, the people of every country especially the people living in the villages all the cleanliness of all the cleanliness of all the cleanliness of all the cleanliness of all the cleanliness. As we are moving to the next phase of Swachh Bharat we are moving from open defecation to the next stage of overall cleanliness what we call overall Swachhata we are typically talking about managing solid waste both in urban and rural and also liquid waste. Plastic waste is becoming a huge agenda so this general cleanliness we call ODF plus so we are now moving from ODF to ODF plus. Sanitation benchmarks across India have transformed dramatically. Bharat is a Gantantrik and all the Gantantrik together work together in harmony Swachh Bharat mission has become a huge example. Mahatma Gandhi believed that India's soul lived in its villages 7 decades after India's independence his dream for a clean India has been revived by the very villages he believed in. Thanks to this historic people's revolution the Swachh Bharat mission