Sanitation on Ganga Bank gets Big Push as Uma Bharati holds back to back People’s Convention
Union Minister for Drinking Water and Sanitation Uma Bharati today held the fourth Ganga Gram Swachhta Sammelan within the last two weeks to strengthen Sanitation based all round development in the villages on the bank of Ganga.
Addressing the Sammelan at Bithoor, Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh, she said its the responsibility of the community to take forward the ODF status achieved in Ganga villages and add Solild and Liquid Management initiatives to it. Praising the unprecedented number progress made by Uttar Pradesh in last one year, she said that within one year sanitation coverage in the state has reached about 99% from a meager 50%. She also informed that India's sanitation coverage has gone up from 39 to 96 percent in just 4 years with construction of 8.8 crore toilets. She said th...