Clean India and Green India are the two sides of one coin, i.e., sustainable development in India.
Clean India or Swatch Bharat Aviyan (SBA) was the dream of the father of the nation. Mahatma
Gandhi was mindful of the poor position of Indian rural people at that time and he dreamt of a
cleaner India, where he emphasized on cleanliness and sanitation as an intact function of surviving.
In June 2014, the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee in his address to Parliament said, “For
ensuring hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation a “Swachh Bharat Mission”
will be established. This will be our tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary to be
celebrated in the year 2019”. Recently, the Narendra Modi Government is trying to establish the
“Swachh Bharat Mission”. Green India mission is a National Mission under eight Missions of the
National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), recognizes that climate change phenomena will
seriously affect and alter the di