Haryana plans Rs 400 crore sanitation campaign

Chandigarh, Dec 18 (UNI) The Haryana Government has forwarded to the Centre a proposal for 'Complete Sanitation Campaign' for the state involving Rs 400 crore.

Under the campaign, 90,940 individual toilets, 12,967 community women toilets, 4,345 toilets in schools and 9,380 toilets in Anganwari centres would be set up, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Dharambir Singh said today.

He said the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme was being implemented in Sirsa and Mahendergarh districts. Under the programme, employment would be ensured for 100 days in a year.

A sum of Rs 15.27 crore had been spent so far for providing employment to 28,056 families of these districts.

Mr Dharambir said the government had also requested the Centre to cover district Jhajjar, Mewat and Rewari under the scheme so that maximum benefit could be provided to the people living below the poverty line.

With a view to providing decentralisation of power, the Haryana government had also enhanced the amount of cash-in-hand money being kept by the Sarpanch from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000.

Mr Dharambir said that under the rural sanitation programme 1.58 lakh individual toilets, 2287 toilets in schools, 318 women community toilets and 1042 toilets had been constructed in anganwadi centres.

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