District Development Commissioner Poonch, Mohammed Aijaz Assad today convened a meeting to review the progress made under centrally sponsored scheme 'Swatch Bharat Mission (Grameen).The meeting was attended by ADDC Abdul Hamid, Chief Planning Officer Seva Ram Bhagat, DPO Mukhlis Ahamad Quarishi, BDOs, AEEs of Rural Engineering Wing (REW), VLWs, JEs and GRSs.Threadbare discussions were held regarding implementation, progress made in IHHLs and other campaigns initiated by Rural Development Department for educating the people about harmful effects of open defecation.During the meeting, DDC took a detailed review of all 189 panchyats falling under 11 blocks. VLWs and GRSs, who have not achieved 25% target of constructing IHHLs units till date, were asked to improve their performance.On the occasion, DDC called for persistent information, education and communication activities to spread awareness among all stakeholders along with carrying out door to door campaign for motivating people to develop habit of using toilets.
DDC said that October 2, has been set as a deadline to make the country as well as all states ODF. He directed DPO to construct the toilets for households that have been left in the baseline survey 2012 under MGNREGA. He also stressed for regular up-dation of data on MIS, geo-tagging and related data on SBM portal.Further, discussions were also held to set targets panchayat wise in each of the 11 blocks with special focus on 34 panchyats from all blocks setting for open defection free by April, 30. The DDC further asked the concerned to make concerted efforts in constructing IHHL units in panchyats located near LOC.He stressed on adopting Shopian model of constructing IHHLs where 15000 IHHLs units were constructed in record time of 20days.DDC asked the concerned to mobilize all available resources including Swachhdoots on the pattern of Shopian district for sensitizing and ensuring maximum participation of stakeholders to achieve absolute target.Earlier, DPO and concerned BDOs apprised the DDC about the progress registered in construction of IHHLs, their verification and geo-tagging.