Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday launched the third phase of Nagarothana scheme for providing infrastructure in urban local bodies, besides making them free from open defecation. Works costing ₹2,847 crore would be executed during the third phase. A sum of ₹1,454 crore and ₹1,810 crore have been spent during the first and second phase of the project, respectively. The Chief Minister told officials to use the financial resources economically and set a target to make all ULBs defecation free by October 2018.
