Creating awareness and promoting cleanliness as well as maintaining good sanitation at individual and community level is set to fetch rewards.
Laying emphasis on sustainability of sanitation practices, Chhattisgarh Panchayat and Rural Development Minister T.S. Singh Deo said there is a need to constantly motivate the people to include cleanliness in their habit.
The focus should be on solid and waste management for better sanitation in the villages which have become open defecation free.
Singh Deo was on Friday reviewing the Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) campaign at his official residence-cum-office.
The Minister called for a permanent model of solid and liquid waste management in rural areas. It should be a practical and economical model so that it can generate long term livelihood for those linked to it, an official communication quoted him as saying.
Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) Director Dharmesh Sahu briefed on the second phase of the Mission in 2020-25. He said those creating awareness and promoting cleanliness and maintaining good sanitation at individual and community level, at blocks and districts, will be rewarded.
He added that under a work plan worth Rs 930.64 crore, 1.23 lakh household toilets and 5,043 community toilets will be constructed.
Work plan has been prepared for 3,526 solid waste management, 4,130 liquid waste management and 54 plastic waste management units among others.
The Ministry of Jal Shakti is holding a Community Toilet Campaign from June 15 to September 15. In view of the return of migrant workers in large numbers, the government wants construction of public toilets fast-tracked.