Information about shemes for latrine
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The Scheme has now been renamed as ‘Nirmal Bharat Abiyan’ (NBA) and revised guidelines have been issued by Government of India. The salient features of the revised guidelines are:
Accelerating the sanitation coverage in the rural areas is advocated so as to comprehensively cover the rural community through saturation approach to create Nirmal Gram Panchayats.
Implementation of NBA is proposed with ‘Village Panchayat’ as the base unit. Village Panchayats where all habitations have access to water are to be taken up on priority.
Accelerate sanitation coverage in rural areas to achieve the vision of Nirmal Bharat by 2022 with all Village Panchayats in the Country attaining Nirmal status.
Incentive as provided under the scheme for construction of Individual Household Latrines (IHHL) has been extended to all Below Poverty Line (BPL) Households and Above Poverty Line Households (APL) restricted to SCs/STs, Small and Marginal farmers, Landless Labourers with homestead, Differently Abled and Women Headed households.