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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP Is Fudging Numbers Under Swachh Bharat to Achieve 'Open Defecation Free' Goal -Kabir Agarwal

UP Is Fudging Numbers Under Swachh Bharat to Achieve 'Open Defecation Free' Goal -Kabir Agarwal

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published Published on Oct 3, 2018   modified Modified on Oct 3, 2018
-TheWire.in

An unverified claim on paper that each household that appears on a 2012 list, which may or may not include all households in the village, has a toilet built for use, is enough to declare the particular village ODF.

Lucknow/ Barabanki:
In late September, the second floor of Vikas Bhawan in Lucknow is buzzing with activity and smelling foul. The activity is centred around achieving cleaner sanitary facilities for the district, and the smell emanates from a toilet which has not been cleaned, probably for days. In one corner is a room, decorated like a typical government office with yellow paint, rickety chairs, disfigured wooden tables, flickering tube lights. The room distinguishes itself from the others via a prominent poster that reads, in all capitals, ‘ODF WAR ROOM’, in front of a smiling image of Mahatma Gandhi. Similar ‘ODF war rooms’ have been set up across districts in the state.

A team of five people is at work from 10 am to 10 pm to ensure that Lucknow can be declared open defecation free (ODF) by October 2. Under Narendra Modi’s pet Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), the UP government has set itself a deadline of October 2 to declare the state ODF.

The job of the personnel deployed in the ‘ODF war room’ is to coordinate with block development officers, village development officers and pradhans (village heads) to monitor the progress of toilet construction in each block and each village. “We have to ensure that by October 2 each village in Lucknow has the number of toilets that have been allocated to it. So that Lucknow district can be declared ODF,” Abhinav Trivedi, a district consultant in-charge of the ‘war room’ told me.

In 2012, a country-wide survey called the baseline survey was undertaken to identify the number of households in rural India that did not have access to toilets. Each gram panchayat reported the number of such households in their jurisdiction and these figures form the basis of the SBM (Gramin)’s targets. A village is declared ODF when it has built the number of toilets required as per the baseline survey of 2012.

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TheWire.in, 2 October, 2018, https://thewire.in/government/uttar-pradesh-swachh-bharat-open-defecation-free


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