No more open defecation in this MP village

A village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district has become free of open defecation, thanks to the efforts of the hygiene-conscious community in collaboration with authorities under the ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.

The village has also engaged a team of literal “whistleblowers” to expose those people, who ease themselves in the open, defying the ban.

“No one now defecates in the open in Gadarwada village of Chhindwara. If someone does so mistakenly, a team of ‘commandos’ forces him to abandon the act by continuously blowing whistles. This has become possible with the efforts of villagers and district administration under the <g data-gr-id="19">Swachh</g> Bharat Abhiyan,” a Public Relations department official said.

Chhindwara Collector Mahesh Chandra Choudhary had earlier launched a campaign to extend the cleanliness drive to every village in the district.  As part of the campaign, when he visited Gadarwada in Amarwada development block, he motivated the people to construct toilets in their houses by utilising the government aid for the scheme.  The initiative was supported by villagers and in a short span of time they started constructing toilets at their homes.