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On 15 August 2014, in his maiden Independence Day address to the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the importance of making India ‘open defecation free’ nation. On Gandhi Jayanti, the Swachh Bharat Mission has come a long way over the past five years. India has achieved objective of declaring itself an Open Defecation Free nation on 2 October 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Swachh Bharat Revolution seems a remarkable achievement and how a highly populated nation led the largest people's movement in the world to make this dream fulfilled. The huge success of “Swachh Bharat Mission” was due to - an effective political leadership, public finance, partnership and public participation. This is a compendium of essays - with names such as Arun Jaitley, Amitabh Kant, Ratan Tata, Sadhguru, Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Tavleen Singh, Bill Gates and many more, along with a message from Prime Minister Modi himself - that celebrates a historic national achievement.