Excelsior Correspondent
KISHTWAR, Apr 11: Taking strong note of the non availability of toilets in the houses of some Government employees of district Kishtwar, the District Development Commissioner (DDC) Angrez Singh Rana today directed officers of Government departments of Kishtwar to stop salaries of all their employees who failed to construct the toilet in their households.
The order of DDC Kishtwar reads that “to accelerate the efforts to achieve universal sanitation coverage and to put focus on sanitation, Government of India is spending crores of rupees on sanitation programme under Swachh Bharat Mission. The Government machinery under the aegis of Rural Development Department (RDD) has taken the mission of constructing the toilet in each and every households to cover the district fully and free it from the menace of open defecation for which RDD is giving wide publicity in every nook and corner of the district regarding the construction of the toilets in their houses, the order reads further.
On receipt of specific reports submitted by ACD Kishtwar regarding non availability of toilets in the houses of 27 Government employees, the DDC has taken the strong note of the matter as the Government employees and their families are defecating in open which is very shameful and depicts the Government in bad picture as the message going out obviously be wrong, would forget about others, the Government cannot bring the sense of cleanliness and hygiene even in its employees.
“Being a Government employee our behaviours and way of living should serve as guidelines and example in the society for others to follow”, the order of DDC reads.
Keeping in view the Mission Targets and taking the serious note on the apathetic approach on behalf of some Government officials ,the district officers of all those officials whose employees are yet to construct toilets shall stop the salaries.
Meanwhile, the concerned Government employees are further warned that if they don’t get the toilets constructed at their houses within 15 days and do away with practice of open defecation, a more strict and stern action will be initiated against them.
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