The Uttar Pradesh government has chalked out an elaborated strategy for the year 2023-2024, to promote Swachh Bharat Mission in villages and make cleanliness an essential part of rural life.
The government proposes to train 1,00,437 people in the state to carry out cleanliness and sanitation exercises in villages and raise people’s awareness to ensure maintenance of cleanliness.
As part of this initiative, a total of 135 trainers will be appointed in 22 District Panchayat Resource Centers (DPRCs) across the entire state, who will oversee all relevant training processes. So far, 73 per cent participants (65,604 out of 90,837 workers) have received the training.
“Training is being provided to the heads of gram panchayats, secretaries, panchayat members, and sanitation workers for the efficient management of activities to promote cleanliness,” a government spokesman said here on Wednesday.
The Swachh Bharat Mission is currently in its second phase. In the first phase of the mission, the goal is to transform 95,826 revenue villages of all 57,704 gram panchayats into model villages by the year 2025.
Furthermore, on-site training is taking place in each selected village. The training of 43,252 masons is also underway while 28,000 participants have completed their training. By the end of June, the training process is likely to be completed.
In order to monitor the ongoing activities aimed at achieving the goals of the Swachchhata Bharat Mission, all districts are working on project planning, presentation, and cost estimation at the directorate level.
“So far, proposals have been received from 11,924 villages and 8,368 gram panchayats in 46 districts,” the official said.
Under the State Sanitation Mission, initiated by the Panchayati Raj Department, the Swachh Bharat Mission is being implemented in two phases. While all districts in the state were declared open defecation free by October 2, 2018. Efforts are now being made to take it to the next level. In the first phase, 2.16 crore toilets were constructed in the state.