compare kerala and himachal pradesh on water pollution
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In culmination of a close battle over the last few months, the ‘Dev Bhumi’ of Himachal Pradesh has tipped ‘God’s own country’ Kerala by just four days to become the first big state to go completely Swachh as per Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan of achieving a clean open defecation free India by 2019.
Kerala had announced its intention well in advance, which was in August by the new Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to go fully Swachh by November 1, its formation anniversary. All its state machinery targets were aligned to the same effect. As of today, its achievement of toilet construction targets stand at 99.89%. Himachal Pradesh led by Congress’ Virbhadra Singh, and alive to Kerala’s targets, has out-run the southern state by 0.11% points to achieve its 100% target of cleanliness as on Thursday evening, burning literally the mid-night oil before Diwali to do so. Union Rural Development Narendra Tomar, Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda and Union Secretary of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Parameshwaran Iyer will be in Shimla along with Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Virbhadra Singh on Friday to announce Himachal Pradesh as the second Open Defecation Free (ODF) state after Sikkim.