INDORE: Working on the line of the country’s cleanest city, Indore administration on Friday set a target to help rural parts of the district get ODF+ tag by the end of this financial year.
Collector Manish Singh, while addressing a gathering of sarpanch of Indore’s villages and senior officials of zila panchayat urged them to generate public awareness and work in partnership with locals to help declare all gram panchayats ODF+ till March 31, 2022.
“We have to ensure successful implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM, Rural) phase-II in Indore district along with sustaining the achievements made under Phase-I of the mission and making adequate arrangements for solid/liquid and plastic waste management (SLWM) in rural areas” Singh said.
Singh took suggestions from Sarpanch and assured them to render all possible help in recovery of property and cleanliness tax from the villagers. He also mentioned that Indore district has on October 5 recorded a big achievement with inauguration of India’s first rural fecal sludge treatment plant in Kali Billod village of Depalpur tehsil.
