The Panchayat and Rural Development Department has constituted a State-level Scheme Approval Committee (Rural) in Chhattisgarh under the Swachh Bharat Mission, which has been been empowered to sanction the schemes in rural regions.
The Committee will approve the various projects to be implemented in the villages of Chhattisgarh. This will speed up the process of development, officials stated.
The State Government has issued a circular to keep all its offices clean and allocate separate toilets to the public in general who visit offices in large numbers.
The Panchayat and Rural Development Department Additional Chief Secretary M K Raut had recently issued a circular to all the Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries, divisional heads, divisional commissioners, district collectors and chief executive officers zilla panchayats in this regard.
The circular said that clean State Government offices will give a strong message to the citizens to keep the village surroundings clean and tidy.
Most of the citizens spend a lot of their time at the offices and ease themselves at the office washrooms. There should be toilets at all State Government offices. Orders have issued to provide at least one washroom to visiting citizens on the premises.
Raut in his circular has stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon the people to keep villages, towns, public places, State Government offices and homes clean.
A large number of State Government employees can help in ‘Swachchta’ (Cleanliness) campaign. The State Government employees can play a catalyst role in villages and towns in sustaining the campaign of cleanliness.
The campaign should not be limited to just constructing toilets but to keep environment clean and pollution-free. The senior officers had been instructed to encourage officers and employees to take part in cleanliness drive in large numbers, the circular stated.