India: Mapping Territory Without Toilets
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Zero-Open-Defecation Drive: Villages, Schools Sans Toilets to be Mapped
In its bid to tackle sanitation and waste management issues in the country, the government on Wednesday decided to make India free from open defecation on a priority basis. At a high-level meeting at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), which had senior officials from about 10 ministries, the government outlined its policy on the newly-proposed Swachchh Bharat mission that aims to ensure hygiene, waste management and sanitation across the nation by October 2, 2019.
Aiming that every new household should have a toilet, it was decided to map all villages and schools without toilets. Suggestions like "babus adopting villages" were also floated during the meeting that went on for more than an hour. "The PM wants all the schemes catering to sanitation put on the fast-track. All the ministries present during the meeting, like the ministry of rural development, ministry of drinking water and sanitation, ministry of health, ministry of women and child development etc, came out with their suggestions. Building more toilets depending on the requirement remained the main part of the discussion. The PMO decided to give the work of construction of toilets to the rural development ministry.
The work was earlier done by the ministry of drinking water and sanitation," sources said.
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