As many as 73 villages have joined hands with the Gram Panchayat sanitary staff to keep their villages and water bodies clean and hygienic through the ‘Swatchatha’ initiative, which was launched on September 30 in the Ramachandrapuram assembly segment in Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district.
The entire assembly segment has been divided into clusters, each comprising sanitary staff serving in the five Gram Panchayats. The group of sanitary staff in support of the NREGA and local women workers will visit a respective village, which they will thoroughly clean for two days.
“All the stakeholders will collect the solid waste generated by the households in the entire village and dump it in a five-cent pit dug for the compost. The compost will be used for farm purposes,” said B.C. Welfare Minister Ch. Venu Gopala Krishna.
