<h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong style="color: rgb(230, 0, 0);">“Aspirational toilets”</strong></h1><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><h3><strong>Context</strong>&nbsp;</h3><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">According to the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, a directive has been delivered to all State governments requiring them to make sure that 25% of newly built public toilet seats in any city or urban unit would be<strong> “aspirational toilets”.</strong></li></ul><h3><strong>About&nbsp;</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">These will have <strong>high-end features such as luxurious bath cubicles, touchless flushing, breast-feeding rooms, and automatic sanitary napkin incinerators.&nbsp;</strong></li><li class="ql-indent-1">These will be indicated as<strong> “aspirational toilets” on Google Maps.</strong></li><li class="ql-indent-1">The aspirational toilets scheme was launched in <strong>September 2022 as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) 2.0,</strong> with an aim to help make cities open defecation free.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">The Centre has allocated ₹1,41,600 crore to the SBM 2.0, which is 2.5 times more than the money allotted to the first phase of the mission that was launched in 2014.</li></ul><h3><strong>Toilet 2.0&nbsp;</strong></h3><ul><li class="ql-indent-1">The Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), launched Toilets 2.0 campaign at a national event organized at Bengaluru, Karnataka on the occasion <strong>of the World Toilet Day 2022 in November 2022.</strong></li><li class="ql-indent-1">The campaign <strong>aims to change the face of public and community toilets i</strong>n urban India through collective action involving citizens and Urban Local Bodies.</li></ul><p class="ql-align-center"><br></p><h1 class="ql-align-center"><strong>PRELIMS NOTES:</strong><a href="https://www.sunyaias.com/subscription-details/prelims-2023-sunya-notes-current-affairs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204);"><strong>CLICK HERE</strong></a></h1>