Swachh Andhra Pradesh Corporation has been launched in line with the Swachh Bharat mission launched at the national level to make cities totally sanitised, healthy and liveable by deriving public health and environmental outcomes for all citizens with focus on hygiene and affordable sanitation for urban poor and women. The primary objective of the mission is elimination of open defecation, achieving 100 per cent collection and scientific processing, disposal, re-use and recycling of municipal solid waste..

Creating an enabling environment for private sector participation in capital and operation & maintenance expenditure and public awareness are among other objectives of the mission.