Explanation:

Swachh Bharat Mission: A women’s movement

• The ‘people’ movement’ has today transformed into a ‘women’s movement’ withrural women playing a leading role in the programme.
• Women of India are now stepping beyond their roles as mere beneficiaries of this programme to leaders of it today. For example, construction of toilets has always been a male bastion. In many States, however, thousands of rural women have been trained as masons and, with the assistance of Self-Help Groups, are now becoming the primary force in driving a State to be declared free from open defecation.
• The hygiene in the utilization of the toilet is also a preventive healthcare scheme. Global experts believe that the SBM will have saved over three lakh lives in the country by the time we become ‘open-defecation fee’ in 2019. Toilets in several parts of India have been named “Izzat Ghar’.