Against the aim of 66,000 toilets construction, 12,000 have been constructed in lohardaga. The rest 54,000 toilets would be completed with public awareness,” said the DC Bhuvnesh Pratap Singh in Press conference here on Friday.
“District administration has done an experiment at Korambe village of Senha block. The positive result of that experiment can be seen now. As many as 15 villagers constructed the toilets themselves,” he added.
According to the DC, the villager who would make the toilets on his own the encouragement fund worth `12,000 would be deposited in the name of his child through Kisan Vikas Patra. In 20 years, `1 lakh would be given to him for that amount. Among the attractive and better toilet constructors, a prize worth `1 crore would be distributed. It is the aim to make the district free from excretion in open by March 2017. In villages, Panchayat Sewak and Rojgar Sewak would be given the responsibility to help in this work. Administration would release the fund to the account of the constructors so that they may make the toilets accordingly. Admin would also organise night Choupal from August 10 to make an appeal to the people for it, Singh added.
On the occasion, all the print media and electronic media personnel took a vow to maintain cleanliness. Reyaj Alam, the executive engineer of Drinking water and Sanitation department, Arvind Kumar from UNICEF, JE Mahendra Bhagat and many others were present.