Excelsior Correspondent
R S PURA, Sept 3: MLA R S Pura, Dr Gagan Bhagat today kick started the construction work of Individual House Hold Latrine (IHHL) from Ward number 9 of Municipal Committee R S Pura.
While addressing the gathering, he said that R S Pura will be first in J&K to achieve the status of ‘Open defecation free town’.
Building toilets in rural India was one of the major promises Prime Minister Narendra Modi made during his speech from the Red Fort ramparts in his first Independence Day address last year. The Government has since moved with alacrity and constructed around 80 lakh countryside toilets across India under Swachh Bharat mission,” he elaborated. Dr Bhagat said that one of the most common complaints was the lack of acceptability and proper usage of the toilets built in remote rural areas. “Though several toilets have been built in this area, villagers still prefer going out into fields to attend nature’s call,” he rued and sought public cooperation to make R S Pura open defecation free town.
EO Municipal Committee R S Pura said that they have tried to cover almost all aspects of the idea of sanitation. “One of the changes introduced, was increasing the incentive amount for an individual’s toilet from the existing Rs 12,000 to above depending upon the individual cases like some people had constructed toilets but the same was connected to open drain of the lane which looked shabby. This hike was made keeping in mind that hygiene is an important factor and promotion of washing hands at critical times, such as after defecation, was essential to prevent faeco-oral transmission,” he explained.
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