Drinking Water and Sanitation

♤ To make India Open Defecation Free by 2019, 55 million household toilets and 115, 000 community toilets need to be built under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan – Gramin. Special attention should be paid to address the inequalities with respect to sanitation access to women, children, senior citizens and differently abled.

♤ Sub –group of Chief Ministers have recommended to engage a professional agency to monitor and evaluate and extensive media campaign which encourage people to maintain and use toilets as well as pay for the use of public toilets.

♤ There is need to make comprehensive analysis to assess why the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) program which has been successful in other countries and states like Himachal Pradesh has not been scaled up at national level in India.

♤ Another priority should be to train and incentivize a cadre of community based sanitation workers or Swacchta Doots as envisaged in the Swachh Bharat Mission.