Two sanitation missions merged to give Kerala its Suchitwa Mission

Background

Waste management is the standing work of Kerala's local governments, and the State's technical agency for it is the Suchitwa Mission, an allied institution of the Local Self Government Department.
Before it existed, the Total Sanitation Campaign in the state was coordinated and monitored by the Kerala Total Sanitation and Health Mission, whose activities were confined to the rural Panchayats.
The Clean Kerala Mission separately enabled the urban and rural local bodies in establishing solid waste management systems.
To avoid duplication of efforts and to tackle existing and emerging challenges in sanitation for an overall health and environmental outcome, it was felt necessary to have a professional institution.
Accordingly the above Missions were integrated as Suchitwa Mission, which started functioning since April 2008.
This institutional reform enabled the up scaling of initiatives envisaged in the Malinya Mukta Keralam Action Plan.
The Mission's own website is sanitation.kerala.gov.in.