Government to gather data related to its Cleanliness Drive. Union Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) has launched Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2018 (SSG 2018) in New
Delhi, a rural cleanliness survey to rank all states and districts on basis of qualitative and quantitative evaluation.
About SSG 2018:
- The objective of SSG 2018 is to undertake ranking of states and districts on basis of their performance attained on key quantitative and qualitative Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen (SBM-G) parameters.
- The rankings will be based on taking into account set of comprehensive cleanliness parameters.
- The criteria of SSG-2018 will include survey of public places, citizens’ perspective of cleanliness, their recommendations and data from SBM-G.
- As a part of it, 6,980 villages in 698 districts across India will be covered.
- It will cover total 34,000 public places namely schools, anganwadis, public health centres, haat/bazaars/religious places in these villages.
- The SSG 2018 will assign 65% weightage to findings and outcome and 35% to service level parameters to be obtained from Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) of the MDWS.
- The weights to different elements of SSG are direct observation of sanitation in public places (30%), citizen’s feedback on sanitation parameters (35%), service level progress on sanitation progress in the country as per SBMG-MIS (35%).
- The SSG 2018 will be conducted by an independent survey agency in all districts from 1st to 31st August 2018.
- It will also take feedback from over 50 lakh citizens on SBM related issues through direct interaction as well as online feedback.
- The top performing states and districts are expected to be awarded on 2nd October 2018.
