Haryana to become open defecation-free by 2017: CM

Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 30

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said the state government would implement solid and waste management projects in all gram panchayats by 2019.

Speaking at the INDOSAN-India Sanitation Conference-2016, organised under the Swachh Bharat Mission, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the state government had approved 1,302 solid and liquid waste management projects. The conference was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Certificates of commendation were given to 27 districts, including Sirsa, Panchkula and Panipat Rural in Haryana, for attaining open defecation-free (ODF) status. Khattar claimed five more districts — Gurgaon, Faridabad, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar and Fatehabad — would become open defecation-free by November.

The CM said mass campaign had been launched to make the state open defecation-free by 2017. “All Haryanvis were being associated with this campaign”, Khattar said.

He further said an incentive of Rs one lakh was being provided to a panchayat on becoming open defecation-free and Rs five lakh and Rs 20 lakh to block and district, respectively.

As many as 14 groups have been proposed for covering all urban local bodies in the state. Out of these, three groups would be of waste to energy model while 12 would be based on composite model. The work on waste to energy plant in Gurgaon, Faridabad and Sonipat is likely to begin before December.