Context: Recently, the Prime Minister inaugurated Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra, an interactive experience centre on the Swachh Bharat Mission. 
It was first announced on 10th April 2017, the occasion of the centenary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi’s Champaran Satyagraha.
Key highlights about Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra

• It is an interactive experience centre on the Swachh Bharat Mission and will introduce future generations to its successful journey as the world’s largest behaviour change campaign.
• A balanced mix of digital and outdoor installations in the RSK will impart information, awareness and education on Swachhata and related aspects. 
• The complex interplay of processes and activities will be presented through assimilative learning, best practices, global benchmarks, success stories and thematic messages in an interactive format.
• It will impart information, awareness and education on Swachhata (sanitation) and related aspects and the installations at RSK will include audio visual immersive shows, interactive LED panels, hologram boxes, interactive games etc.

 About Swachh Bharat Mission

• It is one of the flagship programs of the government. 
• It is also called as Clean India Mission. It is a country-wide sanitation campaign and was launched on 2nd October, 2014.
• It aims to eliminate open defecation, manual scavenging and to incorporate modern and scientific municipal solid waste management and bring behavioural change regarding healthy sanitation practices.

It has two components:

• Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban): Implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (M/o HUA) for urban areas. It has recently achieved its target of creating Urban India Open Defecation Free (ODF)
• Swachh Bharat Mission (Grammen): Implemented by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (M/o DWS) for rural areas. Recently, it completed its Phase-I and its Phase-II was launched.

Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)

• The Swachh Bharat Mission was launched on 2nd October 2014 by the Prime Minister towards eradicating the practice of open defecation across the country.
• The rural component of the Mission, Swachh Bharat Mission – Grameen (SBM-G) has witnessed unprecedented progress with increase in rural sanitation coverage of the country from mere 38% to around 100%.
• Under SBM (G), more than 100 million toilets have been constructed in last five years.
• The Swachh Bharat Mission has transformed rural sanitation in India and has changed the behaviours of over 55 crore people from open defecation to using a toilet.
• The mission is now in its second phase, aiming to take India’s villages from Open Defecation Free (ODF) to ODF Plus, with a strong focus on sustaining ODF status and ensuring solid and liquid waste management for all.

Note: The Union Cabinet has approved the Phase II of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) [SBM (G)] which will focus on Open Defecation Free Plus (ODF Plus), which includes ODF sustainability and Solid and Liquid Waste Management (SLWM). Its objective is to sustain the ODF status of villages and to improve the levels of cleanliness in rural areas through Solid and Liquid Waste Management activities, making villages ODF Plus.