Pakala village is looking to achieve cent per cent construction of Individual Sanitary Lavatories

Collector Yogitha Rana appointed mountaineer Malavath Poorna, who scaled Mount Everest, as brand ambassador for the Individual Sanitary Lavatories scheme in her native village – Pakala of Sirikonda mandal.

Declaring this at the Grama Sabha conducted as part of the implementation of Grama Jyothi programme at the village on Monday, she said residents should consider roads, schools, government offices and property as their own.

The Collector adopted the village for the execution of the Grama Jyothi programme.

She made it clear that if people wanted the government to do everything, a positive change would never come about in villages.

It is everyone’s responsibility to keep villages clean and green. Appealing to the villagers not to send their children to work and instead send them to schools, she said education would bring about a great change.

Explaining the intention of the Grama Jyothi, the Collector said that seven committees on sanitation-safe drinking water supply, healthcare-nutrition, education, social security-poverty alleviation, harnessing natural resources, agriculture and basic infrastructure development would be constituted to supervise the implementation of works.

She said that 40,000 saplings should be planted in the village and cent per cent ISLs be built within 30 days.

The village Sarpanch, Lakshmi, presided over the meeting.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Telangana / by Special Correspondent / Nizamabad – August 18th, 2015