New Delhi

Nearly eight years after the launch, Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen, the flagship programme of the Union government recorded another milestone - of 1,01,462 villages declaring themselves as ODF (open defecation free) plus.

These villages are sustaining their ODF status and have systems in place for managing solid and/or liquid waste and they would continue their sanitation journey as they work towards making their villages cleaner, greener and healthier.

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Nearly eight years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Mission from the ramparts of the Red Fort, with a vision to make the country ODF as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary.