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The 12-hour Swasthagraha is inspired by the Satyagraha that defined Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for not just India's Independence, but also showed the world the power of mobilising people to embrace truth and non-violence. To mark the 150th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a Swasthagraha is being initiated to make India not just cleaner but also healthier.
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That's A Wrap
That's a wrap for this year from the Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha. We leave you with some of the highlights of the action-packed day.
12-hour Swasthagraha ends on a soothing performance of singer Harshdeep Kaur.
Concluding remarks from Laxman Narsimhan, CEO of RB:
We will contunue to enhance five interventions of our campaign as we move from Swachh to Swasth -
- Hygiene impact bond
- Nutrition impact Bond
- Scaling up Dettol school hygiene programme
- Educate and train the grassroot agents on hygiene
We will contunue to enhance five interventions of our campaign as we move from Swachh to Swasth -
- Hygiene impact bond
- Nutrition impact Bond
- Scaling up Dettol school hygiene programme
- Educate and train the grassroot agents on hygiene
- Banega Swasth India with Durex to fight HIV especially in the red-light areas
Sidharth Malhotra, Amitabh Bachchan and Prannoy Roy enjoy the performance of the Mallakhamb artists.
One of the best performances of the day, the Mallakhamb artists who left everyone spellbound with their fitness and command over their art form.
Don't miss out on the stunning synchronized yoga performance at NDTV-@DettolIndia's #BanegaSwasthIndia 12-Hour #Swasthagraha
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Himesh Reshammiya belts out one hit number after another on the Swasthgraha stage and dedicates one his songs to Amitabh Bachchan
After a long day of Swasthagraha, Himesh Reshammiya still manages to get everyone on their feet with his performance
Final few moments of the Swasthagraha and Himesh Reshammiya takes over the stage.
Priyanka Chopra on Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha: About one-fourth of children in India are malnourished which acts as a hurdle to their development. It is extremely important for parents and schools to know how significant nutrition is for children. All stakeholders need to come together to tackle malnutrition.
Priyanka Chopra lends support to the Swasthagraha
Swasthgraha witnesses the most breathtaking performance from Mallakhamba artists.
Ripu Daman, Plogger: In the last two year, most of the participation we have received in plogging is from the school children. We get to learn a lot from them. They are also the right agents of change as they take the initiative back home.
Luke Coutinho, Holistic Lifestyle Coach: In over thousand plus patients we have observed that loosing weight is easy, keeping it off is difficult. You should move every 45 minutes to keep your blood circulation active. The movement can vary according to the pace of the each person. Remember to get your sleep right. Sleep is the most important thing.
With 15 minutes to go singer Harshdeep Kaur checks in at Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha.
With 30 minutes to go for the Swasthagraha, Amit Mishra energises proceedings with a powerful rendition of 'Bulleya' from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
Amit Mishra on stage with Amitabh Bachchan
Singer Amit Mishra at Swasthagraha
.@_AmitMishra _ dedicates a song for a Swasth and Swachh India at NDTV - @DettolIndia 12-Hour #Swasthagraha
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Flogging...err...Plogging: Prannoy Roy and Amitabh Bachchan share lighter moment during the Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha
Kiren Rijiju on Plogging: We try to implement various kinds of initiatives toward sanitation. Today on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday, we wanted to do something new. We thought that we should do something for fitness also along with cleanliness. The Prime Minister also started the Fit India movement. One need not got to the gym to remain fit. We have combined Fit India movement and Swachh Bharat Mission to promote health and cleanliness. So in this initiative, you have to pick up waste while you jog.
Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State of the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports joins the Swasthagraha
Swasthagraha panel discusses what really is fitness
Sangeeta Patel, USAID: India is light years ahead of many countries in terms of innovation. the best thing about these health bond is that these make people accountable and responsible for national and health outcomes as money is being put in it. Anything that happens in India, impacts the world.
Ravi Bhatnagar of RB: We are working with the Uttar Pradesh government to bring it up on the Human Development Index. We waned to try something new. We started working with other organisations like E&Y, Assocham and others to get results like a reduction in infant mortality. We devised health bonds.
The matter of health is different for different poeple. I look at my body as the best machine in the world which works well and can heal itself. We fuel it wtih proper food and nutrition. You don't need to spend too much time in the gym but you need to remain active. Do not remain stuck to your mobiles and other screens. Go out and detox from your devices.
Rakesh Kapoor contributes Rs 50 lakhs in personal capacity and Laxmi Narsimhan contributes Rs 5 crores on behalf of RB.
Prakash Javadekar: Now there is a growing awareness in masses about sanitation. We want people in media to partner with the government to raise awareness about sanitation and health. The government has also started 'Fit India Movement' in this direction which include plogging- picking waste and jogging.
Prakash Javadekar on Swasthagraha: The government believes that Swachh Bharat= Swasth Bharat. We have seen that more than 10 crore toilets have been built in the last 5 years. During this period we have also tried to clean the water resources by curbing sewage discharge and industrial discharge in the rivers. Lack of potable water had negative impact but now this is also improving.
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar joins the Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha.
Rakesh Kapoor of RB on manual scavenging: For most of us the whole subject of manual scavenging is a dirty subject but for thousands of people it is a livelihood. World Toilet College is trying to move the people involved in manual scavenging from indignity to a life of dignity.
Stay fit, stay healthy is Sidharth Malhotra's mantra
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Swachh Kumbh Mela and how it was made possible gets discussed during Banega Swasth India Swasthagraha.
Aditya Thackeray Pledges Rs. 2 lakh for NDTV's 'Banega Swasth India' Campaign
With 2 hours to go in the 12-hour Swasthagraha, Actor Sidharth Malhotra checks in at Banega Swachh India
Singer Tochi Raina lights up the stage with his performance.
Dr Harsh Vardhan on Targets for the future: Tuberculosis elimination target is 2025 and we are working to eradicate Measles
Dr Harsh Vardhan: There is a universal immunisation programme in the country which provided all-important vaccination to all children free of cost. Even after being provided free of cost, about 20 per cent of children is not being covered as the parents do not bring them to the centres to get the vaccination done
Dr Harsh Vardhan, Health Minister on Swasthagraha:
The Swachhta Abhiyan of the country is same as the health campaign. This is because if any programme or intervention is taking place on sanitation, the impact will lead to reduction in diseases, due to a reduction in germs. 12 crore toilets have been made. All these achievements including the behavior change have benefitted me the most as a Health Minister because I see my country becoming healthier. We have been able to tell people that if the surroundings are healthy then the body will remain healthy too. Prevalence of diseases like dengue and malaria will be reduced due to cleanliness.
Dr. Pramod Jog on Impact of Air pollution on children: One of the reasons for children being affected more than adults is that their lungs are still developing and also the respiratory rate of children is much higher than adults also they play outside and thus they inhale more air. Pollutants of small size like PM 2.5 is more harmful as the bigger pollutants get filter in the nose.
Ajay Singh of Spicejet on Swasthgraha:
We feel that we have a responsibility towards the environment. Aviation contributes to 1-2 percent of the pollution. We started a flight from Dehradun to Delhi using bio jet-fuel. The enthusiasm towards this flight was so much that when the first flight of this plane landed in Delhi, 6 cabinet ministers were present. We tell our pilots what speed to fly at, what height to fly at and other ways to cut emissions. We are using electric vehicles on the ground. By 2030, we have targetted to fly most of our passengers on bio-fuel.
Innovators at Swasthagraha: Ratul Narain, Founder, Bempu
Most babies die due to hypothermia. he bracelet called Bempu keeps blinking light and raises an alarm when the baby has temperature fluctuation or blood sugar fluctuation
Innovators at Swasthagraha: Arun Agarwal, Founder, Janitri
We have very few gynaecologist and huge number of deliveries every day. So most of the deliveries are done by Auxiliary nurse midwife (ANMs) and nurses. So the patch which we have developed called 'Keyar' tracks foetal heart rate to track the health of the child and also the mother's health. The data can be transferred to a mobile app for easy comprehension of the data received from Keyar.
Oct 02, 2019 18:06 (IST)