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4 panchayats win Nirmal Gram Award
PATNA: Bihar has joined the league of select Indian states that have won the Nirmal Gram Award for sanitation and hygiene. For the first time, four panchayats of Bihar have been selected for the award instituted by the Centre for successfully implementing the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC).
The campaign which runs throughout the country is an effort to get everybody to use a toilet and reduce the disease burden associated with open defecation. The Bihar panchayats selected for the award are Goitha in Banake Bazaar block and Baraki Chilami in Amas in Gaya district, Bhaganpur in Mushahsri block in Muzaffarpur district and Maile in Biddupur block in Vaishali districts. Although this year 10 panchayats applied for the award, four were finally selected. The public health and engineering department (PHED) is obviously happy with the news. Officials expressed the hope that the four panchayat would go on to be become models for other panchayats to follow. PHED secretary Arun Kumar Singh said the award was given only if a panchayat met cent per cent sanitary toilet coverage and use in households, schools and anganwadi centres. By Rajesh Kumar, Section News Posted on Sat Mar 11, 2006 at 11:00:15 PM EST
He said, "There is no open defecation in the four Bihar panchayat. Besides, general cleanliness and hygiene are strictly maintained there."
He said each of these panchayats would receive a cash reward of Rs four lakh for development work. President A P J Abdul Kalam will give away the awards at a function in New Delhi on March 23. With the state recording toilet-use of 14 per cent in 2001, it was not easy to get entire villages to not only opt for household toilet but also use it. Five years on, the toilet coverage in the state has gone up to 19 per cent. Bihar education project's Mahila Samakhya programme played a vital role in these villages. Women from the programme took up installation of sanitary toilets as women's issue to protect their dignity and pride. Open defecation have led to several cases of sexual harassment and assault of women, particularly those from Dalit communities. The Nirmal Gram Awards were instituted in 2003 and are given to panchayats only if there is no open defecation and each household has a toilet. There is a rigorous selection process too. A team from the Centre lives in each nominated village for 15 days before certifying that every resident used toilets. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1446588,curpg-3.cms
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