STATE TIMES NEWS
KATHUA: Taking a stride towards making Kathua District an Open Defecation Free (ODF) district, District Development Commissioner Kathua Rohit Khajuria on Monday rolled out a plan involving different departments and stakeholders to make it successful during one day orientation programme on Swachh Bharat Mission(G) at Government College for Women here at Kathua today.
DDC Kathua while speaking on the occasion said that 41 per cent of the total 92,979 households have the provision of toilets, further laid thrust on taking the task of making toilets and on mission mode by motivating people as district Kathua has shown dismal performance in the State. He said there is dire need to sensitise people and make them think towards the menace of open defection and its ill impact on health.
Under the plan ADCs and SDMs were directed to supervise and review the pace time to time. The teams comprising the field staff of Agriculture, ICDS, Rural Development, Health, FSC& CA will visit identified households with no toilets and educate them to avail the scheme of individual household toilets of Rural Development under Swachh Bharat Mission(g) and get Rs 12,000 as token money. The BDOs were given monthly targets of their respective Panchayats and a real time monitoring through whatsapp is being provisioned to review progress and to remove bottleneckness if any.
To make the progress accountable targets are to be further divided into sub cluster, cluster, Panchayat and then block wise through constant monitoring at Panchayat, block and Tehsil level, DDC added. He also directed XEn PHE to provide water supply to the identified locations having no provision of water.
On the occasion problems and best strategies were discussed to attune the field workers to adopt means to bring attitudinal change in people.
The provision of recognition for best performing teams was also incorporated under the plan.
ADC Kathua Ashok Sharma, ADC Basohli Sanjay Gupta, ADC Billawar Joginder Singh Rai, ACD Rajiv Khajuria, DPO Vrinder Bawa, SDM Bani , BDO’s, and officials of Rural Development, PHE, PWD, Social Welfare, Agriculture, Health, FSC& CA were also present.
