Swatch Bharath Mission Impact on high School Students

Abstract

The honorable Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Modi had launched a mass campaign ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’ on 2nd October 2014. The campaign was launched with an aim to make India and especially its rural areas completely open defecation free (ODF) by the 150th birth anniversary of great Mahatma Gandhi falling on 2nd October 2019. The main reason behind launching the campaign was to realize the vision of Mahatma Gandhi of making India the cleanest country in the world. The Prime Minister himself started the cleanliness drive by picking up the broom and cleaning the streets and dirty places nearby. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is such an initiative, in which the participation for every individual is equally and very important. Although the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan needs the co-operation of every Indian yet the co-operation of the students of India plays the most important role in making the campaign truly successful. We are describing here few points to elaborate the role of students in Swachh Bharat Abhiyan/Clean India Campaign: The present study was conducted to know the impact of swatch bharath mission on high school students of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. So, the present study is aimed at finding the impact of swatch bharath mission on high school students of Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh in relating to their demographical variable like gender, class, locality, type of school, medium, religion, category, parent’s income, parents occupation, parents education and type of family. Randomly 9 high schools the rural and urban area of Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. The sample size is 630. The investigator adopted interview method to study the present research topic. For the present study the investigator used the tool with Persona standardized l Data Sheet, Impact of swatch breath mission on high school students constructed and validated by the investigator. Percentage analysis, Mean, Standard deviation and t – test statistical techniques were used for Analysis and Interpretation. It is found that there is a significant impact among high school students of kurnool district on swatch bharath abhiyan. There is no significant difference between boys and girl student but there is a significant difference between urban and rural students and the urban students are having good awareness on swatch bharath abhiyan. It is also found that there is significant impact of swatch bharath on demographical variables like class, type of school, medium, Religion, category and type of family. There is no significant difference related to parent’s income, parent’s qualification and their education.