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1,059 Government schools get sanitary facilities

MADURAI: All Government schools and anganwadi centres in the district have been provided with sanitary facilities under the total sanitation project.

“We have constructed sanitary facilities in 805 anganwadis and 1,059 Government schools. Only schools where the strength has gone up recently would have inadequate sanitation facilities,” Anshul Mishra, Project Officer of District Rural Development Agency, which is implementing the project, told The Hindu here on Monday.

In the last fiscal, he said, 24,287 works were taken up involving an expenditure of Rs.3.27 crore under the scheme. Individual household toilets, women’s sanitary complex and rural sanitary marts were constructed under the scheme.

In the current fiscal, 24,000 toilets for households would be constructed for which Rs. 41.4 lakh was allotted. 585 buildings in 278 schools spread across 162 villages were renovated in the last fiscal at a cost of Rs. 4.38 crore under the ‘schools renovation’ project.

Speaking about the implementation of various Central and State Governments’ rural welfare schemes in the district, he said that all habitations with population over 500 have been connected with roads under ‘Core Network’ project.

The Prime Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana was discontinued and Bharat Nirman, a new development programme of the Centre for improvement of connectivity in rural areas, would be taken up.

Under the new scheme, upgrading of 17 km along 18 different roads would be taken up at a cost of Rs.3.82 crore. Under other schemes, he said that another 96 km has been proposed for works worth Rs.17 crore.

Works worth Rs.17.2 crore would be taken up in 86 villages under the Anaithu Grama Anna Marumalarchi Thittam to boost rural infrastructure. Under the ‘Indira Awaz Yojana,’ 1,943 houses were being constructed this year. “Although the number of houses is the same as last year’s, the grant per house has gone up from Rs. 12,000 to Rs. 55,000. The beneficiary has to bear only the labour cost while all the construction material costs will come under the scheme,” he said.

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