Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Thursday announced an incentive based scheme for those villages, blocks and districts which would become Open Defecation Free (ODF) in the year 2016 in the State as they would get incentive money ranging between Rs1 lakh and Rs20 lakh for development works.
The State Government would provide incentive of Rsone lakh to such a village which would become ODF in year 2016. Similarly, Panchayat Samiti would get Rs five lakh in case all villages of a block become ODF. In case, a district becomes ODF, the Zila Parishad would get Rs20 lakh under the scheme, said the Chief Minister while addressing the state-level workshop on ‘Achieving Swachh Haryana – What Will It Take’ here.,
The Chief Minister said that Central Government wanted each state to achieve 100 per cent target of ODF by 2019, the year when the country would celebrate 125th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
Haryana has fixed a target to achieve this goal by September 2017. He said that all should work with a missionary zeal so as to achieve the target.
Apart from ensuring the construction of toilets, the concerned department must also stress on the need to motivate the people to develop ODF behavior as well as cleanliness in urban and rural areas so as to achieve the desired results in real terms, said Manohar lal.
He also hoped that five to seven districts would achieve ODF target by November 1, 2016. By working on the missionary mode, some more districts would achieve the same by December 31, 2016 and the remaining districts by September 30, 2017, he said.