Nagpur: ZP admin gives ‘ultimatum’ to 307 award-winning GPs

 

* Notices issued as these Gram Panchayats won Nirmal Gram Award but do not have 100 per cent coverage of toilets

Staff Reporter
Acting tough, Zilla Parishad (ZP) administration has issued notices to 307 Gram Panchayats (GPs) that were honoured with Nirmal Gram Award between 2006 and 2011, asking them to get constructed toilets within three months. Else, the administration has warned, the GPs would be stripped of honour and award money.
Confirming the development, Shivajirao Jondhale, Chief Executive Officer of ZP, told ‘The Hitavada’ that at the time of sending entries for the award these Gram Panchayats had stated that they had 100 per cent coverage of toilets. Several claims about total cleanliness and sanitation were made to qualify for the award. However, during an inspection conducted in 2012, it was found that most of these award-winning Gram Panchayats lacked toilets. “Hence, we have asked them to get constructed the toilets to achieve 100 per cent coverage in respective villages, within three months,” he said.
Funds would be made available for construction of toilets, as per the norms. Now, the Gram Panchayats will have to reach out to beneficiaries, get them motivated to get constructed the toilets, and use the toilets regularly. Else, the Gram Panchayats would be stripped of Nirmal Gram Award and the award money both. These GPs have failed in maintaining cleanliness and sanitation since getting the award.
The notice is part of motivating these GPs to take further the goals of Nirmal Gram Yojana, now re-named as Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. An important component of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is making villages free of defecating in the open, by the year 2019. For the purpose, every household should have toilets and those toilets should be used.
It may be mentioned here that between 2006 and 2011, as many as 307 of total 774 Gram Panchayats in Nagpur district won Nirmal Gram Award. This itself indicates that as many 467 Gram Panchayats, a majority, in the district did not qualify for the award that was relating to cleanliness and sanitation. Bhiwapur, Kuhi, and Parseoni tehsils had a dismal record in this regard with least number of GPs qualifying for the award.

Gram Panchayats that won Nirmal Gram Award -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tehsil                     Total no of GPs     No of award-winning GPs

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Bhiwapur                      56                               11

Hingna                         55                                24

Kalmeshwar                51                                30

Kamptee                     48                                24

Katol                           83                                24

Kuhi                            60                                14

Mouda                        62                                23

Nagpur                       70                                45

Narkhed                     70                                36

Parseoni                     52                                10

Ramtek                      45                                21

Saoner                       75                                 23

Umred                        47                                22

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Total                         774                               307

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(16-07-15)

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