Jhunjhunu sets December 31 deadline to be open defecation free

JAIPUR: Banswara and Jhunjhunu have set targets to make their respective districts open defecation free (ODF). A sustainable programme "Tajo Wangad" would be launched in Banswara in this regard while Jhunjhunu is aiming to enter in 2016 with a tag of ODF district.
Setting the target of 2018 to make Banswara free of open defecation, district administration will launch a massive awareness programme."We gave the name Tajo Wangad to have local connect. Under this, we will launch programmes and include people from hamlets and villages," said Prakash Rajpurohit, district collector, Banswara.
The administration is chalking out strategies to reach out to the gram panchayats in a phased manner. The elected representatives have been asked to extend their support and turn the campaign into a mass movement. Progress of the district would be monitored by the collector while for villages it has been handed over to patwaris.
In the initial stage, total 69 panchayats have been included. Villages here will be made ODF by December 2015. Saredi Badi, Vajvana, Navagaon, Badgaon, Savnia and Khamera are to be developed as model panchayats, where community work has already been started.
Meanwhile, Jhunjhunun has set a deadline of December 31 to make the whole district ODF. Out of 3.45 lakh families, there are still 1.52 families that do not have toilets in their homes. To speed up the efforts the administration is attracting sarpanchs by asking to make their villages ODF by August 12 and get felicitated on Independence Day.