Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat has dedicated newly constructed building of Swajal Pathshala in Shankerpur on Thursday.
In his address, CM said that Uttarakhand would be open defection free (ODF) by January 26. A long journey of cleaning drive has been covered till date. 4331 villages, 48 blocks and 5 districts of State have become ODF.
People making appreciable efforts to make ODF campaign successful will be awarded on December 10.
Congratulating the Cabinet Minister Mantri Parsad Naithani, officials concerned, employees, people’s representatives, NGOs he said that making entire State ODF was a big mission which would only be successful with the help of all the stakeholders. In his address Naithani told that State of Uttarakhand was on the fourth place in context of ODF and would be ODF by 26 January.
It may be pointed out here that Swajal Pathshala Building has been constructed with the cooperation of Swajal Project, Drinking Water Department and World Bank. Capacity building of representatives of three tier Panchayati Raj institutes and employees of executive agencies to maintain long term permanency of drinking water and hygienic facilities is major purpose of Swajal Pathshala.