 Early Times Report
Jammu, July 2: On the 6th day of Swachh Bharat Summer Internship-2018, the interns of Govt. Degree College Bishnah accompanied by Prof Amit Kumar Sharma, Nodal Officer for the internship programme visited Block Development Office, Bishnah to meet with the concerned officials for getting the detailed information regarding implementation of various schemes under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and also discussed with them the targets achieved at ground level in the adopted Panchayat Halqa Ratnal. The interns interacted with the concerned Secretary of the Panchayat Ratnal, Munish who informed them that as per the standing guidelines of Swachh Bharat Mission, the govt employees and people having high economic status are not eligible for the financial for help of Rs 12000/- for construction of toilets. Moreover, the financial help is sanctioned in favour of the beneficiary after the completion of the said toilet which is a cumbersome procedure as the persons with meager resources may not be in a position to spend 12000/- on their own to begin with. He also informed the interns that only 67 households of Ratnal Panchayat are left where toilets are to be constructed under as per the Baseline Survey 2011 but after seven years of the baseline survey 2011, the situation as observed by the interns in their ground report has changed a great extent as far as the households not covered under Swachh Bharat Mission are concerned. |
