DK district bags sanitation award

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Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsDakshina Kannada district is one of the three districts in the country to bag the Nirmal Gram Puraskar for achieving total sanitation for the year 2011.The awards have been constituted by the Ministry of Rural Development in collaboration with the state Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department. Sullia taluk panchayat and another 103 Gram Panchayats in the state also received the award on Saturday here at Raj Bhavan.Speaking after giving away the awards to representatives from gram panchayats, Governor H R Bharadwaj called the cleaning of rural India ‘difficult task’. Lauding the efforts of the 103 gram panchayats, he stressed on having an integrated approach towards rural development.“We must give priority to rural sectors than metropolitan centres. When it comes to providing education and health care in rural areas, the Centre and state governments have to talk. It is not enough if there is a Central-sponsored scheme with meagre resources,” Bharadwaj said.The Governor strongly deplored the existence of manual scavengers in many villages. According to him, the state was achieving slow results on this front due to meagre resources. “The priority has to be the provision of flush toilet in every rural household,” Bharadwaj said. The Dakshina Kannada district is placed 11th nationally and first in the state for sanitation. “We are proud to say that our district is free from open defecation,” said president of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat KT Shailaja Bhat. Deputy Chief Minister and RDPR Minister K S Eshwarappa on Friday had said that more than 45 per cent of the state’s population still defecate in the open.first published:August 19, 2012, 10:35 ISTlast updated:August 19, 2012, 10:35 IST
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Dakshina Kannada district is one of the three districts in the country to bag the Nirmal Gram Puraskar for achieving total sanitation for the year 2011.

The awards have been constituted by the Ministry of Rural Development in collaboration with the state Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) department. Sullia taluk panchayat and another 103 Gram Panchayats in the state also received the award on Saturday here at Raj Bhavan.

Speaking after giving away the awards to representatives from gram panchayats, Governor H R Bharadwaj called the cleaning of rural India ‘difficult task’. Lauding the efforts of the 103 gram panchayats, he stressed on having an integrated approach towards rural development.

“We must give priority to rural sectors than metropolitan centres. When it comes to providing education and health care in rural areas, the Centre and state governments have to talk. It is not enough if there is a Central-sponsored scheme with meagre resources,” Bharadwaj said.

The Governor strongly deplored the existence of manual scavengers in many villages. According to him, the state was achieving slow results on this front due to meagre resources. “The priority has to be the provision of flush toilet in every rural household,” Bharadwaj said. The Dakshina Kannada district is placed 11th nationally and first in the state for sanitation. “We are proud to say that our district is free from open defecation,” said president of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat KT Shailaja Bhat. Deputy Chief Minister and RDPR Minister K S Eshwarappa on Friday had said that more than 45 per cent of the state’s population still defecate in the open.