Safaimitra Suraksha Challenge:
- Launch: The challenge has been launched among 243 major cities on the World Toilet Day (19th November).
- Aim: To prevent hazardous cleaning of sewers and septic tanks and promote their mechanized cleaning.
-The Government launched this “challenge” for all states to make sewer-cleaning mechanized by April 2021 — if any human needs to enter a sewer line in case of unavoidable emergency, proper gear and oxygen tanks, etc., are to be provided. - Eligibility: The state capitals, urban local bodies and smart cities will be eligible to participate.
- Prize: Cities will be awarded in three sub-categories – with a population of more than 10 lakhs, 3-10 lakhs and up to 3 lakhs, with a total prize money of Rs.52 crores to be given to winning cities across all categories.
Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003:
- Replaced the Cigarettes Act of 1975 (largely limited to statutory warnings- ‘Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health’ to be displayed on cigarette packs and advertisements. It did not include non-cigarettes).
- The 2003 Act also included cigars, bidis, cheroots, pipe tobacco, hookah, chewing tobacco, pan masala, and gutka.
National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP), 2008:
- Objective: To control tobacco consumption and minimize tobacco consumption related deaths.
- Implementation: NTCP is implemented through a three-tier structure, i.e.
- National Tobacco Control Cell (NTCC) at Central level
- State Tobacco Control Cell (STCC) at State level &
- District Tobacco Control Cell (DTCC) at District level.
mCessation Programme:
- It is an initiative using mobile technology for tobacco cessation.
- India launched mCessation using text messages in 2016 as part of the government’s Digital India initiative.