Ujire: The Dharmasthala village is still not sanitary and it will take an year to make it clean and rule out open toilets, said GP chief Poojary whole distributing permission letters to families who have no toilets, to construct them now.
As per a recent survey made, there are still 144 families in and around the holy town who have not constructed their own toilets in the last 3 or 4 decades.
Dr. D V Heggade has sanctioned Rs 4,000 for each family to build their own toilets at least now, under local rural development scheme. A sum of Rs. 4.40 lakhs (for 101 persons)to build their own toilets at least now, under local rural development scheme. A sum of Rs4.40 lakhs(for101 persons) to build personals toilets has been given by Dr. Heggade already. The balance work will be done for backward families under the scheme to reach a 100% target of cleanliness in Dhrmasthala village soon, Poojary hoped.
Project director on sanitation and cleanliness, Jayashankar Sharma and activist Vishwanath Shetty were present. Ganesh Bhat welcomed and Prasanna thanked the gathering.
A training workshop was conducted in Belthangady this week on Rainwater harvesting(making full use) and rural sanitation by SDM Rudset Project and cleanliness Programme in rural areas. The workshop was inaugurated by Jayashankara Sharma Prof. L.K. Sripathi of Shimoga and Dr. Narayana Shenoy of MIT, Manipal participated in the programme as resource persons for the trainees. Slides were shown on water harvesting methods. They analysed the ways of diverting rain waters into borewells to raise the underground levels of water to activate borewells.
Dr. L.H. Manjunath, MD of RUDSET was present at the workshop. He explained the importance of making good use of every available drop of rainwater collected in a harvest. Several farmers, local officials and rural development workers from Puttur and Belthangady taluks took part.
Water and Sanitation Project officer Abhayraj Welcomed and Co-ordinator Srinivas thanked the participants.