FUNDS TO PUNJAB FOR RURAL SANITATION
Ministry of Rural
Development has released funds under Total Sanitation Campaign
(TSC) to 8 districts of Punjab. These districts are Faridkot,
Jalandhar, Nawan Shehar, Hoshiarpur, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur,
Roopnagar and Amritsar.
Faridkot district
gets an amount of Rs.8.90 lakh, Jalandhar Rs.30.50 lakh, Nawan
Shehar Rs.10.05 lakh, Hoshiarpur Rs. 20.66 lakh, Fatehgarh Sahib
Rs.8.13 lakh, Gurdaspur Rs.28.96 lakh, Roopnagar Rs.31.58 and
Amritsar district gets Rs. 70.09 lakh under TSC.
The Total Sanitation
Campaign(TSC) focuses on awareness generation to create demand
for sanitation facilities. Financial support is given for construction
of individual household toilets by the below poverty line (BPL),
school toilets for all government schools in the rural areas with
emphasis on separate toilets for girls in all co-educational schools,
toilets for Anganwadi and Balwadi centres, Community Sanitary
Complexes for women in villages where land availability with individuals
is a problem and people are ready to own, operate and maintain
such complexes. In addition to meet the demand generated for sanitation
facilities alternative delivery mechanism in the form of Production
Centres and Rural Sanitary Marts are being set up.
