HP to be Open Defecation Free by 2010: Dhumal

Shimla, Nov 22 (UNI) The Himachal Pradesh Government has launched a a sanitation campaign to make the state completely Open Defecation Free (ODF) by the year 2010.

This was stated by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal in his address he delievered at Anita Mahajan Saraswati Vidya Mandir, Rangri, Manali after he dedicated the newly constructed school auditorium to the students of the school today.

The Chief Minister asked the people of the state to actively involve themselves in achieving the target set by the state government for saving the hilly state's fragile ecology.

He said that every citizen needed to contribute actively towards achieving the objective and make Himachal Pradesh a heaven in real sense.

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