Fresh ideas to install 50,000 toilets a year

To meet its target of constructing over 50,000 toilets in Mysuru district this year, the zilla panchayat has drafted a plan involving schools, gram panchayats, health activists and anganwadi workers to motivate residents to construct the toilets.

Accredited social health activists (ASHA), anganwadi workers and assistants, bill collectors, watermen and sweepers in gram panchayats will be given incentives for this.

Motivate 10 persons

P.A. Gopal, chief executive officer of Mysuru ZP, told

The Hindu that each school had to motivate 10 persons in their vicinity to build toilets. Similarly, health activists, anganwadi workers, watermen and sweepers have been given a goal of getting 10 toilets built. Each gram panchayat has to construct 100 toilets in their jurisdiction.

Employees who perform beyond their set targets will be rewarded at the end of the year. Similarly, schools which motivate more people would be given certificates and additional marks for the annual environmental-friendly school competition, Mr. Gopal said.

Gram panchayat employees, health activists and anganwadi workers can collect get application forms at the GP office and get the signature of the beneficiary after convincing him about the advantages of having a toilet in his or her house. The GP will issue a work order soon after it receives the application form duly signed by the beneficiary, and then the beneficiary can get the toilet built in his house. The ZP under the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan will give an amount of Rs. 15,000 per toilet for SC and ST communities and Rs. 12,000 per toilet for others. Cluster Resource Persons, Block Resource Persons and Block Education Officers will supervise the schools while primary health centres and taluk medical officers will supervise the work of health activists, the CEO said.

Fresh ideas to install 50,000 toilets a year

ZP to ask schools, health activists, and anganwadi teachers to motivate residents to build toilets