PM stated to maintain Sanitation in India

 SMTV Desk 2019-01-27 17:13:19   Narendra Modi, Sanitation in India
PM stated to maintain Sanitation in India

New Delhi, January 27: Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi tremendously developing India by implementing many welfare schemes. Modi on Saturday said that more than 5.5 lakh villages and 600 districts have been declared ODF (open defecation free) and 98% of rural India is now under the sanitation coverage with nine crore households being provided with latrines.

"On October 2, 2014, we embarked on a memorable journey together to clean our country and to get rid of open defecation. Due to the unequivocal support from the people of India, today India is moving towards liberation from open defecation much prior to the target of October 2, 2019, so that we may pay our homage to Bapu on his 150th birth anniversary," Modi said in his Mann Ki Baat monthly radio address.


More than 50 lakh toilets participated in the Clean Beautiful Toilet or Shining Toilet contests in December 2018, he stated. In the contests, people are making their toilets clean and colorful by having them painted. One can find lots of photos of such toilets from Kanyakumari to Kutchh to Kamrup, Assam on the social media, Modi added.

Modi stated all the Sarpanchs and village heads to take a lead in this campaign from their respective panchayats by "sharing their beautiful toilet photos" with him by using #MylzzatGhar on social media.