Taking a step forward towards making Punjab an open defecation-free State, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked the officers to expedite the process of providing toilet in each household in every district at the earliest.
Badal, presiding over a meeting with the officers of the State Water Supply and Sanitation Department, said that the State Government has set a target of constructing 7.90 lakh toilets in the State with a view to make State totally defecation free.
Expressing satisfaction over the ongoing pace of work for constructing these toilets, he said that these toilets would benefit the people both individually and socially besides providing a hygienic environment in the State.
Badal asked the officers to ensure that these toilets were constructed well in time so that public especially from the rural areas could be immensely benefitted from it.
Chief Minister said that during Sangat Darshan programmes, he has personally observed that people were satisfied by the ongoing work on these toilets. “However, the need of the hour is to expedite the pace of work so that the target of making State an open defection free is achieved at the earliest,” he said.
Badal asked the officers to include the newly-constructed colonies for weaker and underprivileged sections in the villages under the scheme to provide potable drinking water and toilet facility.
It was informed in the meeting that construction work of these toilets was going on in full swing and Sri Fatehgarh Sahib was the only district which had already completed the entire work by fully covering 1,490 villages within its jurisdiction.
likewise, it was informed that by the end of current fiscal, 12 more districts of State including Moga, ludhiana, Mansa, Faridkot, Bathinda, Sahibzada Ajit Singh (SAS) Nagar, Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar and others would also achieve 100 percent completion target by the end of current fiscal.