"Mission for the Sanitary India: A Case Study of Aligarh City" Uttar Pradesh, India

India is a religious country with ancient civilization and having population diverse religion. Our country having so much pride in unity in diversity lacks behind in meeting. International standards of sanitation and cleanliness realizing poor sanitation. The Father of nation Mahatma Gandhi had a dream of clean India. Gandhi played a great role for making Indian clean and green. Moreover the Government of India has followed the foot prints of Gandhi and took his dream in positive way by starting a Mission for the sanitary India. The Mission was started by Honourable Prime Minister of India Mr. Narendra Damodardas Modi on 2nd of October, 2014 in the honour of Mahatma Gandhi 145th Birth anniversary at Rajghat, New Delhi with an aim to make clean India. The Mission aim is to provide upliftment to the maintenance of adequate disposal system of domestic sewage, cleanliness in rural and urban development, availability of safe and clean drinking water to all. Mission implementation and aim to complete sanitary India dream through Mission for the sanitary India by the year 2019. Some of the ministries involved in mission for the sanitary India are Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation, Public Sector Undertaking, Corporations, National Government Organizations (NGOs), State Governments, Defence Research and Development Organisation etc. However, it has been clearly declared that the campaign is not only the duty of the government alone but each and every citizen of the country is equally responsible to keep the nation clean and green, and mission for the sanitary India. Present paper discusses the progress of schemes documented under Mission for the sanitary India for the Aligarh city in Uttar Pradesh and problems encountered in the accomplishment of goal. This paper gives current scenario of India with respect to case study of municipal solid waste quantity, quality and its management.