Border district Fazilka to be open defecation free by Nov 30

FAZILKA: The Fazilka district bordering neighbouring country Pakistan will be made open defecation free(ODF) BY November 30. Presently 132 out of total 398 villages in the district have been made ODF free and work is in progress to cover the remaining villages before the deadline. The nodal officers and motivators appointed for the centrally sponsored project under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan have been directed to keep an eye on those going in the open to answer nature’ call.
They have been asked to go into the fields at 5 in the morning for the purpose of identifying persons going in the open. Fazilka Deputy Commissioner Isha Kalia on Thursday set out on visit at 5AM and visited villages Alamke, Laddu Uttar Wala, Gumaniu Wala, Bhamba Battu Hithar and took stock of the progress in making villages open defecation free. She also met the villagers and motivated them to start the practice of going inside the home by constructing toilets.
Isha Kalia said that “we are determined to turn the district into open defecation free by November 30. Those who have no toilets built at their houses are being told to avail the facility of the grant of Rs. 15,000 given in three instalments to construct toilets at their homes. I visited some villages early in the morning and prevailed upon people to contribute in the national project”.