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    Construction of toilets under Swachh-Bharat to be completed before schedule

    Construction of toilets under Swachh-Bharat to be completed before schedule

    By Anjana Raghav
    Apr 26, 2018
    07:11 pm

    What's the story

    Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri today said the government would meet the target of constructing 67 lakh household and 5 lakh public toilets in urban areas under the Swachh Bharat Mission a year ahead of the schedule of 2 Oct'19.

    He also stressed behavioral change among people was at the heart of cleanliness mission which would ensure its success.

    Here's more.

    Construction of toilets

    52 lakh toilets built till March 31

    "As on March 31, we have already built 52 lakh individual household toilets and 3.2 lakh public toilets...well one year in advance of October 2019, well before October 2018."

    "We would build the required amount of toilets in the urban areas of the country," he said while addressing "India Sanitation Conclave 2018", organized by industry body FICCI in New Delhi.

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    Aim

    Swachh Bharat Mission aims to achieve 100% open defection free

    The Swachh Bharat Mission (Clean India Mission) aims to achieve 100% open defecation free (ODF) and scientific solid waste management in India by October 2, 2019, the 150th birthday anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

    The scheme is implemented by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry in urban areas and the Drinking Water and Sanitation Ministry is responsible for rural areas.

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    Solid waste management

    Only way to deal land issue is participation of stakeholders

    Speaking about the management of solid waste, another component of cleanliness mission, Puri said, "I am afraid that the capacity augmentation which is required is taking place at a very fast rate, but I would like to see that (waste management projects') completion."

    "Land is a state subject and the only way to deal with it is through participation of stakeholders," he added.

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    Development goals

    OECD designed previous set of development goals

    The previous set of development goals, the Millennium Development Goals, were conceived, designed and put into a package in which the thinking was done by the West, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

    These were developed in Paris and then brought as a package to UN to all member states on the basis of "take it or leave it" package, Puri said.

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    Suucess of Millenium Development Goals

    Puri said the success of the MDGs essentially revolved around the fact the China was able to lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and India also did well in that front and took the number two slot.

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    SDGs

    SDGs were negotiated by 193 UN members

    The beauty of the SDGs was that they were negotiated by the 193 member states and all stakeholders put together.

    The MDGs succeeded because of China, and the SDGs will succeed because of India.

    If India succeeds, the SDGs succeed because India is that one next bastion which is right in the center of the whole SDG exercise, he said.

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