India generates nearly 62 million tons of municipal social waste annually, creating huge environmental problems. A small number of initiatives for waste treatment, e.g., incineration, pyrolysis, bio-refining & biogas plants, composting, recycling, and SLFs are available in the country. An inclusive improvement policy and a paradigm shift are necessary for sustainable Solid Waste Management (SWM). SBM (SBM), flagged off on October 2, 2014, is considered as a paradigm shift in the Indian SWM movement. SBM is the country’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive, costing over 10,600 million USD for 5 years in 4,041 towns, which SWM considered as one of the six components. One of the stated objectives of SBM is to ensure door-to-door garbage collection and proper disposal of municipal solid waste in all 83,000 wards in urban areas by 2019. Swachh Bharat citizen communities were formed subsequently to generate awareness and citizen participation. Since then, over a period of 12 months, over 335,000 citizens have become part of the various Swachh Bharat citizen communities across more than 100 cities in India. The study reviews the present status and sustainability of the activities undertaken and proposes some improvement scopes in the schemes under the SB mission for effective SWM in India. The study will definitely help in revisiting the scheme periodically for continual improvement.