AP's Nellore district bags 16th Indian rank for Swachh Bharat

Nellore, Nov 13: The Prime Minister's decision of Swachh Bharat program has been implemented effectively in all villages and habitations in the Nellore district With the active participation of villagers and local leaders, which helped it secure the 16th place in the country-wide rankings.

In the past one year, special measures like awareness drives were taken up in beneficiary villages all over the district to ensure that the people in rural areas make use of the toilets constructed in their houses, to make the program a success.

In order to sustain these awareness programmes, the officials have used a specially designed vehicle with the Swachh Bharat message. It has moved around in the villages where videos were shown to the local residents on the need for avoiding open defecation as this would help promote health and hygiene in their surroundings.

Stating that the entire district has been made open defecation free, Collector R. Mutyala Raju has instructed the officials at different levels to take it as their responsibility to keep up the commitment among the villagers and local representatives.