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SWACHHA SANKEERNA Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Department (RDWSD) is working towards ensuring sanitation and providing clean drinking water to the rural areas of Karnataka. It administers the Swachha Sankeerna project, Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBMG) Karnataka and Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) Karnataka. The emblem of Swachha Sankeerna has two greenish ‘S’s forming a flower supported by its name and the name of the unit -Waste Management Unit in green and black.

SWATCH BHARAT ABHIYAN Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) or Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) is a nation-wide campaign launched by the Government of India on October 2, 2014, the 145th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The mission aimed for open-defecation free India by October 2, 2019, along with cleaning up of the streets, roads and infrastructure of Indian cities, towns, urban and rural areas. Shri Anant Khasbardar of Kolhapur, Maharashtra has designed the logo while Bhagyasri Sheth of Rajkot, Gujarat provided the tagline in Devanagari 'एक कदम स्वच्छता की ओर' meaning 'Step Towards a Clean India'. Spectacles of Mahatma Gandhi with its bridge in the tricolour signifies, the nation uniting to achieve the vision of Mahatma for a clean India.